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FireBoard Home Assistant Integration v0.1.0

🎉 Initial Release

A fully functional Home Assistant integration for FireBoard wireless thermometers with REST API polling.

✨ Features

  • Device Discovery: Automatically discovers all FireBoard devices linked to your account
  • Temperature Sensors: Creates sensors for each probe channel with custom labels
  • Connectivity Monitoring: Binary sensors show device online/offline status
  • Session Cookie Authentication: Secure authentication with FireBoard Cloud API
  • 60-Second Polling: Regular updates well within API rate limits (200 calls/hour)
  • HACS Compatible: Easy installation through Home Assistant Community Store

📦 What's Included

  • REST API integration with FireBoard Cloud
  • Support for multiple devices and channels
  • Automatic sensor naming from FireBoard labels
  • Clean fallback handling for API errors
  • Comprehensive error logging

🚀 Installation

Via HACS (Recommended):

  1. Add this repository as a custom repository in HACS
  2. Search for "FireBoard" in HACS integrations
  3. Click Install
  4. Restart Home Assistant
  5. Add FireBoard via Settings → Devices & Services

Manual:

  1. Copy custom_components/fireboard to your config/custom_components directory
  2. Restart Home Assistant
  3. Add FireBoard via Settings → Devices & Services

📝 Configuration

Simply provide your FireBoard account credentials:

  • Email: Your fireboard.io email address
  • Password: Your fireboard.io password

The integration will automatically discover all your devices and create sensors for each probe channel.

🔄 Update Frequency

  • Device data updates every 60 seconds via REST API
  • Well within FireBoard's rate limit of 200 calls per hour
  • No additional MQTT broker required

🐛 Known Limitations

  • Temperature updates via polling (60-second intervals)
  • MQTT real-time updates planned for future release

📚 Documentation

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Home Assistant community and FireBoard for their excellent products!

📄 License

MIT License - See LICENSE for details

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