The telnet
switch platform allows you to control devices with telnet commands.
To enable this switch, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml
file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
switch:
- platform: telnet
switches:
projector:
resource: THE_IP_ADDRESS
port: 4002
command_on: "PWR ON"
command_off: "PWR OFF"
command_state: "PWR?"
value_template: '{{ value == "PWR=01" }}'
timeout: 0.9
Configuration Variables
The array that contains all switches.
Name of the switch as slug. Multiple entries are possible.
Host name or IP address of the device.
port integer (Optional, default: 23)
command_on string Required
Command to turn device on.
command_off string Required
Command to turn device off.
command_state string (Optional)
Command to determine the state of the switch. If not defined the switch will assume successful state changes.
The template evaluating to true
will indicate that the switch is on.
The name used to display the switch in the frontend.
timeout float (Optional, default: 0.2)
How long to wait for a reply after a telnet command is sent.