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Connect your data to Denframe

Bring sensor states, API responses and business measures into Denframe, or share selected Denframe actions and summaries with Home Assistant.

Choose whether to bring data into Denframe or share Denframe entities with Home Assistant. These guides describe builds with the new connection setup; check your installed build if a choice is missing. Examples use synthetic values and placeholder endpoints.

  1. Guide 34

    Show Home Assistant sensor values

    Put a temperature, a battery level or a door status from Home Assistant on a dashboard, using your home connection and no automation.7 steps
  2. Guide 35

    Watch and control your home

    Have your screens say when a door is open, a leak is detected or a battery is low, and turn chosen lights and switches on and off from Denframe.7 steps
  3. Guide 36

    Share Denframe with Home Assistant

    Export chosen Denframe scenes, speaker mute switches and short summaries to Home Assistant through MQTT, then use them there and in its official car apps.8 steps
  4. Guide 37Experimental

    Use Apple Home with Denframe

    Operate approved lights and switches from Denframe, and start dashboards or mute speakers from Apple Home and Siri, with Home Assistant between them.7 steps
  5. Guide 38

    Show MQTT readings on a dashboard

    Connect Denframe to a broker you already run, read one exact state topic, and show live temperature and battery readings with clear freshness and availability.8 steps
  6. Guide 40

    Connect an HTTP JSON API

    Poll an allowed HTTPS API with GET, or a fixed read-only JSON POST, and show the values it returns on a dashboard.7 steps
  7. Guide 41

    Receive updates with an inbound webhook

    Let a script or automation send selected JSON values to Denframe, instead of Denframe polling for them.7 steps
  8. Guide 42

    Send Power BI values with Power Automate

    Run a saved dataset query in your organization’s flow and deliver the result to a Denframe webhook.6 steps
  9. Guide 43

    Connect directly to Power BI

    Sign in with Microsoft and let Denframe run one fixed DAX query on a schedule.8 steps
  10. Guide 44

    Connect a reviewed MCP read operation

    Discover a compatible MCP server, approve one fixed read and map its JSON result to dashboard values.7 steps

Which connection should I choose?

  • Home sensor values: start with the native Home Assistant connection.
  • Denframe scenes, mute controls or summaries in Home Assistant: use the opt-in Home Assistant export guide, including Companion automotive favorites.
  • Lights from Denframe, or Denframe in Apple Home: see the experimental Apple Home guide.
  • Power BI with an existing organization flow: use Power Automate and a webhook. Without an approved inbound delivery route, consider direct Power BI sign-in.
  • A conventional JSON API: use HTTP GET or a fixed read-only POST.
  • An existing MQTT broker and exact state topics: use MQTT readings. For sensors already in Home Assistant, keep the native Home Assistant connection.
  • A producer that sends HTTP updates: use a webhook.
  • A compatible MCP server with a reviewed read operation: use the advanced MCP connection. Denframe is an MCP client: it connects outbound to an MCP server you run and reads reviewed, read-only data. It is not an MCP server, and it offers no cloud or public API for agents to control a household; its own interfaces require the household's credentials and are reachable beyond the home network only through a route its owner sets up.

Already have data and need a screen? See the casting guide.