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title: "Adding thermostats"
description: "Instructions how to setup thermostats tracking within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-01-20 22:36
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Thermostats offer Home Assistant a peek into the current and target temperature in a house. Some thermostats will also offer an away mode that will lower use of heating/cooling. The only supported thermostat right now is the Nest thermostat.

To set it up, add the following information to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```
thermostat:
  platform: nest
  username: myemail@mydomain.com
  password: mypassword
```

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