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title: "Hyperion"
description: "Instructions how to integrate Hyperion into Home Assistant."
date: 2015-10-25 22:43
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ha_category: Light
ha_release: 0.7.6
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This platform allows you to integrate your [Hyperion](https://hyperion-project.org/wiki) into Home Assistant.

Hyperion is an open source Ambilight implementation which runs on many platforms.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  - platform: hyperion
    host: 
```

Configuration variables:

- **host** (*Required*): IP Address of the device the Hyperion service is running on.
- **port** (*Optional*): The Port used to communicate with the Hyperion service (default is 19444).
- **name** (*Optional*): The Name of the device used in the frontend.