| Platform | Description |
|---|---|
| sensor | Creates temperature and/or humidity sensor entities for each PCSensor TEMPer USB device plugged into your system |
This sensor reads PCSensor TEMPer devices, which are simple USB
temperature and humidity sensors. There are various revisions of
the hardware, and this code supports many of them -- specifically,
those supported by the temper-py module.
There are two major caveats to using these devices. I assure you, I'm only coding this because I lack other convenient temperature sensors. I should really just spend $30 and get a different one.
Be forewarned -- these devices have a flaw (or there is an implementation issue across multiple drivers in various programming languages) that cause the temperature to "stick" occasionally. This goes beyond mere binary granularity, but seems to be an actual flaw in the hardware, unless there is some undocumented means of interacting with the hardware in a way that prevents this behavior. ..which is totally possible, as there's no documentation for interacting with the sensor. Some people just want to see the world burn.
That said, for some, this hardware may just be "good enough."
The devices have no unique identifier, at all. Every TEMPer device of one hardware revision looks like every other TEMPer device of that hardware revision. This means the devices have no unique id.
The workaround that this module implements is that the USB port is used to uniquely identify the device. That is, if you unplug it, and plug it into a different port, HomeAssistant will see it as an entirely different device.
Copy custom_components/pcsensor to <HA config_dir>/custom_components/.
Add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
sensor:
- platform: pcsensor