38.5 HA Terminology

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Integrations represent devices and services.

A device is a physical object, a hardware specific entity. Entities can be anything like sensors, automations, switches, and scenes. A device may have multiple sensors or switches, for example.

Services are actions on a switch.

States are like on/off.

https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/architecture/devices-and-services/

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