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title: "Introduction"
description: "Details about the introduction within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-10-25 15:15
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The introduction component will show a card in the UI with 'Welcome Home!' and steps on how to get started. It will also print the same message to the console when starting up.

The introduction component is loaded by default on a new Home Assistant instance.

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
introduction:
```

To disable this component, remove the `introduction:` entry from your `configuration.yaml` file.