Adding documentation for influxdb sensor #1340
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fabaff
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Oct 27, 2016
| The `InfluxDB` sensor allows you to use values from an InfluxDB database to populate a sensor state. | ||
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| To configure this sensor, you need to define the sensor connection variables and a list of queries. A sensor will be created for each query. | ||
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Please add a minimal sample to get users started quickly.
sensor:
- platform: influxdb
queries:
- name: last value of foo
unit_of_measurement: °C
where: '"name" = ''foo'''
measurement: '"°C"'
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| Configuration variables for the server: | ||
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| - **host** (*Optional*): IP address of your database host, eg. http://192.168.1.10. Defaults to `localhost`. |
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Can you please do me a favor and check if that's right? We are talking about the IP address but show an URL. I guess that wrong in the InfluxDB component documentation as well.
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I have corrected both. The influxdb client api wait for a hostname/ip address
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Adding documentation for influxdb sensor