@@ -38,20 +38,9 @@ There is currently support for the following DROP products within Home Assistant
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- ** RO Filter** : reverse osmosis drinking water filtration.
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- ** Salt Sensor** : alerts when the salt level in the softener brine tank is low.
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- ### Configuration
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+ ### Pre-requisites
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- To use DROP with Home Assistant, you must have already configured the [ MQTT] ( /integrations/mqtt/ ) platform. It is
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- recommended
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- that you create a unique user to connect your DROP Hub to your MQTT broker. If you are
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- using the Mosquitto add-on, go to ** Settings > Add-ons** in the Home Assistant UI and select the Mosquitto broker.
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- Under ** Configuration** , enter a new username and password for your DROP Hub in the ** Logins** field:
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- ``` yaml
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- - username : drop
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- password : your_unique_password
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- ` ` `
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- If you are using a different MQTT broker, please reference its documentation to learn how to add a new user.
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+ To use DROP with Home Assistant, you must have already configured the [ MQTT] ( /integrations/mqtt/ ) platform.
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To enable the DROP integration, use the DROP Connect app to connect your DROP Hub to your MQTT broker:
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@@ -60,7 +49,19 @@ To enable the DROP integration, use the DROP Connect app to connect your DROP Hu
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- Enter the MQTT broker address, port number, username, and password.
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- Click ** Connect** and confirm that the DROP Hub has connected to the MQTT broker.
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- Once the DROP Hub is connected to your MQTT broker, the devices on your DROP system will be discovered by Home
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+ Once the DROP Hub is connected to your MQTT broker, the devices on your DROP system should be discovered by Home
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Assistant.
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- Go to **Settings > Devices & Services** in the Home Assistant UI to add your DROP devices.
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+ {% details "Manual configuration steps" %}
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+ - Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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+ - Go to ** {% my integrations title="Settings > Devices & Services" %}** .
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+ - Set up the new discovered devices.
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+ {% enddetails %}
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+ <div class =" note " >
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+ The MQTT broker address and port used for the DROP Hub must be the same as configured for the Home Assistant MQTT integration.
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+ </div >
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