diff --git a/.coveragerc b/.coveragerc
index 7c21d3a6ed5..4e912e9bb36 100644
--- a/.coveragerc
+++ b/.coveragerc
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ omit =
     homeassistant/components/sensor/sabnzbd.py
     homeassistant/components/sensor/swiss_public_transport.py
     homeassistant/components/sensor/systemmonitor.py
+    homeassistant/components/sensor/temper.py
     homeassistant/components/sensor/time_date.py
     homeassistant/components/sensor/transmission.py
     homeassistant/components/switch/hikvisioncam.py
diff --git a/homeassistant/components/sensor/temper.py b/homeassistant/components/sensor/temper.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d52164fd0e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homeassistant/components/sensor/temper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+"""
+homeassistant.components.sensor.temper
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Support for getting temperature from TEMPer devices
+"""
+
+import logging
+from homeassistant.helpers.entity import Entity
+from homeassistant.const import CONF_NAME, DEVICE_DEFAULT_NAME
+
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+REQUIREMENTS = ['https://github.com/rkabadi/temper-python/archive/master.zip']
+
+
+# pylint: disable=unused-argument
+def setup_platform(hass, config, add_devices_callback, discovery_info=None):
+    """ Find and return Temper sensors. """
+    try:
+        # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module, import-error
+        from temperusb.temper import TemperHandler
+    except ImportError:
+        _LOGGER.error('Failed to import temperusb')
+        return False
+
+    temp_unit = hass.config.temperature_unit
+    name = config.get(CONF_NAME, DEVICE_DEFAULT_NAME)
+    temper_devices = TemperHandler().get_devices()
+    add_devices_callback([TemperSensor(dev, temp_unit, name + '_' + str(idx))
+                          for idx, dev in enumerate(temper_devices)])
+
+
+class TemperSensor(Entity):
+    """ Represents an Temper temperature sensor  within Home Assistant. """
+    def __init__(self, temper_device, temp_unit, name):
+        self.temper_device = temper_device
+        self.temp_unit = temp_unit
+        self.current_value = None
+        self._name = name
+
+    @property
+    def name(self):
+        """ Returns the name of the temperature sensor. """
+        return self._name
+
+    @property
+    def state(self):
+        """ Returns the state of the entity. """
+        return self.current_value
+
+    @property
+    def unit_of_measurement(self):
+        """ Unit of measurement of this entity, if any. """
+        return self.temp_unit
+
+    def update(self):
+        """ Retrieve latest state. """
+        try:
+            self.current_value = self.temper_device.get_temperature()
+        except IOError:
+            _LOGGER.error('Failed to get temperature due to insufficient '
+                          'permissions. Try running with "sudo"')
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 763db9c2539..54c0f5a29f4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -93,4 +93,7 @@ pywemo>=0.1
 https://github.com/balloob/python-wink/archive/master.zip#pywink>=0.1
 
 # Slack notifier
-slacker>=0.6.8
\ No newline at end of file
+slacker>=0.6.8
+
+# Temper sensors
+https://github.com/rkabadi/temper-python/archive/master.zip