Using the five-zone temperature sensor in Home Assistant

When I first created this temperature logger application, I was able to use a configuration in Tasmota to automatically send data to Home Assistant independent of the Tasmota integration. This was done using the setoption19 1 command in the Tasmota console. This option was deprecated, and it is not available in the new Tasmota installations anymore. The alternative solution for this issue is to add the temperature sensors manually in Home Assistant.

Tasmota reports the sensors data using an MQTT JSON message in the following format:

tele/ESP32_TEMPERATURE_HUB/SENSOR = {"Time":"2023-05-15T06:15:49","ATC19f133":{"mac":"a4c13819f133","Temperature":25.7,"Humidity":30.0,"DewPoint":6.8,"Battery":43,"RSSI":-82},"ATC969ab4":{"mac":"a4c138969ab4","Temperature":24.6,"Humidity":41.1...