Virtual Devices

This article will tell you how to create virtual devices in a smart home, so you can see what the actual platform looks like.

Install integration

To use virtual devices you need to install “demo” integration.
To do this, you should edit your configuration file.

Go to the configuration folder, which you provided during the configuration process. In this folder, you will find a folder
named “homeassistant”. Go inside it. Open the configuration.yaml file with a text editor under the root user and insert the following line into it:

...
# Example configuration.yaml entry
demo:
...

After that, restart Home Assistant via web interface. When the smart home restarts, you can find all virtual devices in the “demo” entities.
Find them in Settings -> Devices & services -> Demo. All these entities can be added to your dashboard.