Home Assistant

Home Assistant Core Integration

The Home Assistant Core integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more.
[Learn more] provides generic implementations like the generic homeassistant.turn_on.

Editing the general settings in YAML

The Home Assistant Core integration is also responsible for the general settings. These settings are defined during onboarding, but you can change them later under Settings > System > General. For the detailed steps, refer to Basic settings.

If you prefer editing in YAML, you can define your general settings in the configuration.yaml file. Note that for some of the settings, these can’t be edited from the UI if they were defined in YAML. They will be grayed out or inaccessible.

Screenshot showing coordinates cannot be edited because they are defined in configuration.yaml file Screenshot showing coordinates cannot be edited because they are defined in configuration.yaml file.

To get started with the general settings in YAML, follow these steps:

  1. Copy the following information to your configuration.yaml file.

    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"

  2. Edit each entry to fit your home.

Configuration Variables

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name string (Optional)

Name of the location where Home Assistant is running.

latitude float (Optional)

Latitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.

longitude float (Optional)

Longitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.

elevation integer (Optional)

Altitude above sea level in meters. Impacts sunrise data.

unit_system string (Optional)

metric for Metric, us_customary for US Customary. This also sets temperature_unit, Celsius for Metric and Fahrenheit for US Customary

temperature_unit string (Optional)

Override temperature unit set by unit_system. C for Celsius, F for Fahrenheit.

time_zone string (Optional)

Pick your time zone from the column TZ of Wikipedia’s list of tz database time zones

currency string (Optional, default: EUR)

Pick your currency code from the column Code of Wikipedia’s list of ISO 4217 active codes

external_url string (Optional)

The URL that Home Assistant is available on from the internet. For example: https://example.duckdns.org:8123. Note that this setting may only contain a protocol, hostname and port; using a path is not supported.

internal_url string (Optional)

The URL that Home Assistant is available on from your local network. For example: http://homeassistant.local:8123. Note that this setting may only contain a protocol, hostname and port; using a path is not supported.

customize string (Optional)

Customize entities.

customize_domain string (Optional)

Customize all entities in a domain.

customize_glob string (Optional)

Customize entities matching a pattern.

allowlist_external_dirs list (Optional)

List of folders that can be used as sources for sending files.

allowlist_external_urls list (Optional)

List of external URLs that can be fetched. URLs can match specific resources (e.g., http://10.10.10.12/images/image1.jpg) or a relative path that allows access to resources within it (e.g., http://10.10.10.12/images would allow access to anything under that path)

media_dirs map (Optional)

A mapping of local media sources and their paths on disk.

language string (Optional, default: en)

Default language used by Home Assistant. This may, for example, influence the language used by voice assistants. The language should be specified as an RFC 5646 language tag, and must be a language which Home Assistant is translated to.

country string (Optional)

Country in which Home Assistant is running. This may, for example, influence radio settings to comply with local regulations. The country should be specified as an ISO 3166.1 alpha-2 code. Pick your country from the column Code of Wikipedia’s list of ISO 31661 alpha-2 officially assigned code codes

Services

The homeassistant integration provides services for controlling Home Assistant itself, as well as generic controls for any entity.

Service homeassistant.check_config

Reads the configuration files and checks them for correctness, but does not load them into Home Assistant. Creates a persistent notification and log entry if errors are found.

Service homeassistant.reload_all

Reload all YAML configuration that can be reloaded without restarting Home Assistant.

It calls the reload service on all domains that have it available. Additionally, it reloads the core configuration (equivalent to calling homeassistant.reload_core_config), themes (frontend.reload_themes), and custom Jinja (homeassistant.reload_custom_templates).

Prior to reloading, a basic configuration check is performed. If that fails, the reload will not be performed and will raise an error.

Service homeassistant.reload_custom_templates

Reload all Jinja templates in the config/custom_templates directory. Changes to these templates will take effect the next time an importing template is rendered.

Service homeassistant.reload_config_entry

Reloads an integration config entry.

Service data attribute Description
entity_id List of entity ids used to reference a config entry.
area_id List of area ids used to reference a config entry.
device_id List of device ids used to reference a config entry.
entry_id A single config entry id used to reference a config entry.

Service homeassistant.reload_core_config

Reloads the core configuration under homeassistant: and all linked files. Once loaded the new configuration is applied. New customize: information will be applied the next time the state of the entity gets updated.

Service homeassistant.restart

Restarts the Home Assistant instance (also reloading the configuration on start).

This will also do a configuration check before doing a restart. If the configuration check fails then Home Assistant will not be restarted, instead a persistent notification with the ID persistent_notification.homeassistant_check_config will be created. The logs will show details on what failed the configuration check.

Service homeassistant.stop

Stops the Home Assistant instance. Home Assistant must be restarted from the Host device to run again.

Service homeassistant.set_location

Update the location of the Home Assistant default zone (usually “Home”).

Service data attribute Optional Description
latitude no Latitude of your location.
longitude no Longitude of your location.
elevation yes Elevation of your location.

Example

action:
  service: homeassistant.set_location
  data:
    latitude: 32.87336
    longitude: 117.22743
    elevation: 120

Service homeassistant.toggle

Generic service to toggle devices on/off. Same usage as the light.toggle, switch.toggle, etc. services. The difference with this service compared the others, is that is can be used to mix different domains, for example, a light and a switch can be toggled in a single service call.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes The entity_id of the device to toggle on/off.

Example

action:
  service: homeassistant.toggle
  target:
    entity_id: 
      - light.living_room
      - switch.tv

Service homeassistant.turn_on

Generic service to toggle devices on. Same usage as the light.turn_on, switch.turn_on, etc. services. The difference with this service compared the others, is that is can be used to mix different domains, for example, a light and a switch can be turned on in a single service call.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes The entity_id of the device to turn on.

Example

action:
  service: homeassistant.turn_on
  target:
    entity_id:
      - light.living_room
      - switch.tv

Service homeassistant.turn_off

Generic service to toggle devices off. Same usage as the light.turn_off, switch.turn_off, etc. services. The difference with this service compared the others, is that is can be used to mix different domains, for example, a light and a switch can be turned off in a single service call.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id yes The entity_id of the device to turn off.

Example

action:
  service: homeassistant.turn_off
  target:
    entity_id:
      - light.living_room
      - switch.tv

Service homeassistant.update_entity

Force one or more entities to update its data rather than wait for the next scheduled update.

Service data attribute Optional Description
entity_id no One or multiple entity_ids to update. It can be a list.

Example

action:
  service: homeassistant.update_entity
  target:
    entity_id:
    - light.living_room
    - switch.coffe_pot

Service homeassistant.save_persistent_states

Save the persistent states (for entities derived from RestoreEntity) immediately. Maintain the normal periodic saving interval.

Normally these states are saved at startup, every 15 minutes and at shutdown.

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