How to Integrate Basic Sensor Monitoring in Jellyfin Dashboard?

[Aria James]

Hi everyone! I’m experimenting with ways to integrate some basic hardware stats or room environment feedback (like temperature or proximity) into a Jellyfin dashboard widget just for fun and to learn more about home automation. While testing with sensors like the HC-SR04 ultrasonic module, I followed this helpful article on how it works with Arduino:
https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2...ensor.html
My idea is to use an API or plugin to show simple status like user approaching or room occupied on Jellyfin. I saw similar ideas discussed on Home Assistant forums and also looked at Jellyfin API docs, but I’m not sure where to start for integrating basic external inputs.

[crobibero]

Jellyfin doesn’t support providing custom metrics that would be displayed anywhere. I would think that you would send the metrics to home assistant?