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Altruist in Home Assistant
altruist
part of Home Assistant since 2025.7
Local, polling
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Bronze
Altruist is an official Home Assistant integration for Health and Sensor. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Quality scale
- Bronze – The basic requirements for a new integration are met.
- Installations
- 2
- Provides
- Sensor
- Found automatically via
- Network discovery (Zeroconf)
- Maintained by
- @airalab, @LoSk-p
- Python packages
altruistclient==0.1.1
Setup
- Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Altruist.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Community versions in HACS
These extensions use the same domain. Installed through HACS, one of them takes the place of the official integration – usually to bring a feature or a fix sooner. Remove it again once Home Assistant has caught up.
- HACS Altruist Sensor – Home Assistant Integration for local connection to Altruist sensor
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration