Starling Bank
The Starling Bank sensor integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to monitor your account balance data as sensors in Home Assistant.
- Turn off the lights when money’s tight?
- Play a song when you reach a savings goal?
- Sound an alarm if you go into your overdraft?
You can find more information about Starling Bank at their website
Access token
Once you have your own Starling bank account you will need to sign up for a Starling developer account here
You control what access is granted using this token. This integration only needs very basic access (see below).
Once you’ve signed up:
- Connect your personal Starling Bank account to your developer account. Head to Personal Access Page
of your developer account. - Follow the instructions to generate the QR code to scan within the Starling mobile app to authorize and link your bank account to the developer account.
- Head to the Personal Access Section
of your developer account. - Click “Create Token”.
- Give your token a name, e.g., “Home Assistant”.
- Tick the permissions “account:read” and “balance:read”. The others you can leave un-ticked.
- Click “Create” and make a note of the newly created token, you will need this for your Home Assistant configuration.
Configuration
To add Starling account balance sensors to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file.
After changing the configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. The integration is now shown on the integrations page under Settings > Devices & services. Its entities are listed on the integration card itself and on the Entities tab.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
- platform: starlingbank
accounts:
- access_token: YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
Configuration Variables
A list of Starling accounts. Allows you to monitor multiple Starling accounts.
For test purposes. Set to true if you are using an access token for a sandbox Starling account.