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Folder watcher in Home Assistant
folder_watcher
part of Home Assistant since 0.67
Local, polling
Set up in the user interface
Quality: Internal
Folder watcher is an official Home Assistant integration for System monitor. 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
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 1,360 (0.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- System monitor
- Provides
- Event
- Python packages
watchdog==6.0.0
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Folder watcher.
- 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.
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration