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+"""
+homeassistant.components.logger
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Component that will help guide the user taking its first steps.
+
+For more details about this component, please refer to the documentation at
+https://home-assistant.io/components/logger.html
+
+Sample configuration
+
+logger:
+  default: critical
+  logs:
+    homeassistant.components: debug
+    homeassistant.components.device_tracker: critical
+    homeassistant.components.camera: critical
+
+"""
+import logging
+
+DOMAIN = 'logger'
+DEPENDENCIES = []
+
+LOGSEVERITY = {
+    'CRITICAL': 50,
+    'FATAL': 50,
+    'ERROR': 40,
+    'WARNING': 30,
+    'WARN': 30,
+    'INFO': 20,
+    'DEBUG': 10,
+    'NOTSET': 0
+}
+
+LOGGER_DEFAULT = 'default'
+LOGGER_LOGS = 'logs'
+
+
+class HomeAssistantLogFilter(logging.Filter):
+    def __init__(self, logfilter):
+        self.logfilter = logfilter
+
+    def filter(self, record):
+
+        # Log with filterd severity
+        if LOGGER_LOGS in self.logfilter:
+            for keyvalue in self.logfilter[LOGGER_LOGS]:
+                filtername = keyvalue[0]
+                logseverity = keyvalue[1]
+                if record.name.startswith(filtername):
+                    return record.levelno >= logseverity
+
+        # Log with default severity
+        default = self.logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT]
+        return record.levelno >= default
+
+
+def setup(hass, config=None):
+    """ Setup the logger component. """
+
+    root_logger = logging.getLogger()
+
+    loggerconfig = config.get(DOMAIN)
+    logfilter = dict()
+
+    # Set default log severity
+    logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT] = LOGSEVERITY['debug'.upper()]
+    if LOGGER_DEFAULT in loggerconfig:
+        logfilter[LOGGER_DEFAULT] = LOGSEVERITY[loggerconfig[LOGGER_DEFAULT].upper()]
+
+    # Compute logseverity for components
+    if LOGGER_LOGS in loggerconfig:
+        for key, value in loggerconfig[LOGGER_LOGS].items():
+            loggerconfig[LOGGER_LOGS][key] = LOGSEVERITY[value.upper()]
+
+        logs = sorted(loggerconfig[LOGGER_LOGS].items(), key=lambda t: t[0], reverse=True)
+        logfilter[LOGGER_LOGS] = logs
+
+    # Set log filter for all log handler
+    for handler in logging.root.handlers:
+        handler.addFilter(HomeAssistantLogFilter(logfilter))
+        root_logger.info(logfilter)
+
+    return True