Home Assistant
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Home Assistant is a local smart home hub platform supportig many integrations for automation.
Configuration
While you can configure most of Home Assistant directly from the user interface, some parts need you to edit configuration.yaml.
To improve readability, you can source out certain domains from your main configuration file with the !include-syntax.
yaml
light: !include lights.yaml
Example basic configuration:
yaml
homeassistant:
name: Home
latitude: 32.87336
longitude: 117.22743
elevation: 430
unit_system: metric
currency: USD
country: US
time_zone: "America/Los_Angeles"
external_url: "https://www.example.com"
internal_url: "http://homeassistant.local:8123"
allowlist_external_dirs:
- "/usr/var/dumping-ground"
- "/tmp"
allowlist_external_urls:
- "http://images.com/image1.png"
media_dirs:
media: "/media"
recordings: "/mnt/recordings"
legacy_templates: false
Docker Compose
yaml
version: '3'
services:
homeassistant:
image: homeassistant/home-assistant:stable
volumes:
- ./config:/config
environment:
- TZ=Europe/Berlin
restart: always
network_mode: host
Extensions