How to monitor the system resources

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Are you interested in monitoring the resources of the system on which Home Assistant is running ?

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Software configuration

1. Home Assistant. I'm currently running version?2022.12.5.

Home Assistant code (yaml) / procedure

• This is the sensor's platform (SystemMonitor) you have to configure in order to monitor the system resources (it is currently available via code only):

- platform: systemmonitor
? ? resources:
? ? ? - type: disk_use_percent
? ? ? ? arg: /config
? ? ? - type: disk_use
? ? ? - type: disk_free
? ? ? - type: memory_use_percent
? ? ? - type: memory_use
? ? ? - type: memory_free
? ? ? - type: network_in
? ? ? ? arg: eth0
? ? ? - type: network_out
? ? ? ? arg: eth0
      - type: network_in
? ? ? ? arg: eth1
? ? ? - type: network_out
? ? ? ? arg: eth1
? ? ? - type: processor_use
? ? ? - type: processor_temperature        

Of course you can add other types of resources to monitor according to the SystemMonitor integration or remove those you don't need to monitor.

• As soon as the new sensor's platform has been configured and Home Assistant restarted, the systemmonitor entities will become available:

• Developer Tools -> States in order to get the value of one entity:

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