Serial Sensor

The serial sensor platform is using the data provided by a device connected to the serial port of the system where Home Assistant is running. With ser2net and socat would it also work for sensors connected to a remote system.

To check what kind of data is arriving at your serial port, use a command-line tool like minicom or picocom on Linux, on a macOS you can use screen or on Windows putty.

$ sudo minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0

To setup a serial sensor to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: serial
    serial_port: /dev/ttyACM0

value_template for Template sensor

TMP36

"{{ (((states('sensor.serial_sensor') | float * 5 / 1024 ) - 0.5) * 100) | round(1) }}"

Examples

Arduino

For controllers of the Arduino family a possible sketch to read the temperature and the humidity could look like the sample below.

#include <ArduinoJson.h>

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
}

void loop() {
  StaticJsonBuffer<100> jsonBuffer;
  JsonObject& json = prepareResponse(jsonBuffer);
  json.printTo(Serial);
  Serial.println();
  delay(2000);
}

JsonObject& prepareResponse(JsonBuffer& jsonBuffer) {
  JsonObject& root = jsonBuffer.createObject();
  root["temperature"] = analogRead(A0);
  root["humidity"] = analogRead(A1);
  return root;
}

Digispark USB Development Board

This blog post describes the setup with a Digispark USB Development Board.