home assistant sensors configuration

README.md

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 # Rapsberry Pi MQTT monitor
-Python 2 script to check cpu load, cpu temperature, free space, voltage and system clock speed
+Python script to check cpu load, cpu temperature, free space, voltage and system clock speed
 on a Raspberry Pi computer and publish the data to a MQTT server.
 
-I wrote this so I can monitor my raspberries at home with home assistant. The script is writen for python 2
+I wrote this so I can monitor my raspberries at home with [home assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/). The script was written and tested on Python 2 but it should work fine on Python 3.
-as when I wrote it one of the used python modules was not available for python 3. (if the modules are available for python 3 now the script shuold have no problems running on python 3 - plan to check that in the near feature)
 The script if very light, it takes 4 seconds as there are 4 one second sleeps in the code - due to mqtt have problems if I shoot the messages with no delay.
 
 # Installation:
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 */2 * * * * /usr/bin/python /home/pi/scripts/rpi-cpu2mqtt.py
 
-Home Assistant Integration
+# Home Assistant Integration
 
-![Rapsberry Pi MQTT monitor in Home Assistant](images/rpi-cpu2mqtt-hass.jpg)
+![Rapsberry Pi MQTT monitor in Home Assistant](images/rpi-cpu2mqtt-hass.jpg)
+
+Once you installed the script on your raspberry you need to create some sensors in home assistant.
+
+This is the sensors configuration assuming your sensors are separated in sensors.yaml file.
+```yaml
+  - platform: mqtt
+    state_topic: "masoko/rpi4/cpuload"
+    name: rpi 4 cpu load
+    unit_of_measurement: "%"
+
+  - platform: mqtt
+    state_topic: "masoko/rpi4/cputemp"
+    name: rpi 4 cpu temp
+    unit_of_measurement: "°C"
+
+  - platform: mqtt
+    state_topic: "masoko/rpi4/diskusage"
+    name: rpi 4 diskusage
+    unit_of_measurement: "%"
+
+  - platform: mqtt
+    state_topic: "masoko/rpi4/voltage"
+    name: rpi 4 voltage
+    unit_of_measurement: "V"
+
+  - platform: mqtt
+    state_topic: "masoko/rpi4/sys_clock_speed"
+    name: rpi 4 sys clock speed
+    unit_of_measurement: "hz"
+```