Home Assistant
Publish Reflex values to Home Assistant (an open-source home automation platform) and build automations on them there. Home Assistant sees the published values as ordinary sensors.
- Click + Add integration in the left column and enter the Home Assistant server details.
- Open the integration and click + Add entity.
- Select the value to publish and, if desired, assign a name. Leaving the name empty uses the value's own name.
Check the result: the value appears as an entity in Home Assistant.
Integrations vs. actions, and publishing values no rule uses
An action runs once when a rule runs; an integration publishes values continuously.
Values not used by any rule can also be published. Reflex sets up the reading automatically, and reuses the existing reader if a rule already reads that value.
Cameras used by the integration appear on its page with live video, so their status can be confirmed even without a rule.
If a rule uses a value you stop publishing, the value itself continues to be produced; only publishing stops.