NOTE: This binding is provided by the [MQTT binding](https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/mqtt/), and therefore no explicit installation is necessary beyond installing the MQTT binding.
Devices that use [Home Assistant MQTT Discovery](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/#mqtt-discovery) are automatically configured with this binding.
Components that share a common `device.identifiers` will automatically be grouped together as a single Thing.
Each component will be represented as a Channel Group, with the attributes of that component being individual channels.
Any device that publishes the component configuration under the `homeassistant` prefix in MQTT will have their components automatically discovered and added to the Inbox.
You can also manually create a Thing, and provide the individual component topics, as well as a different discovery prefix.
See the [Home Assistant documentation](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/#support-by-third-party-tools) for a broad list of devices that should be supported by this binding.
It's not feasible to test every component from every device, so there may be issues with specific devices.
Please [report an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/new?title=[mqtt.homeassistant]+Unsupported+Device) if you find a device that is not working as expected, and not otherwise noted as a limitation above.
### ESPHome
Configure your device to connect to MQTT as described [in the documentation](https://esphome.io/components/mqtt.html), and make sure `discovery` is not set to `false`.
Assuming you're not running Home Assistant in parallel, you should also remove any `api:` block in your configuration.
### Tasmota
To activate Home Assistant discovery support on your Tasmota device you need to do the following:
