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title: "Demo platforms"
description: "Instructions how to use the Platform demos with Home Assistant."
date: 2016-02-24 07:00
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The `demo` platform allows you to use components which are providing a demo of their implementation. The demo entities are dummies but show you how the acutal platform looks like. This way you can run own demonstration instance like the online [Home Assistant demo](https://home-assistant.io/demo/) or `hass --demo-mode` but combined with your own real/functional platforms.

Available demo platforms:

- [Alarm control panel](/components/alarm_control_panel/) (`alarm_control_panel`)
- [Binary sensor](/components/binary_sensor/) (`binary_sensor`)
- [Camera](/components/camera/) (`camera`)
- [Garage door](/components/garage_door/) (`garage_door`)
- [Light](/components/light/) (`light`)
- [Lock](/components/lock/) (`lock`)
- [Notification](/components/notify/) (`notify`)
- [Roller shutter](/components/rollershutter/) (`rollershutter`)
- [Sensor](/components/sensor/) (`sensor`)
- [Switch](/components/switch/) (`switch`)
- [Thermostat](/components/thermostat/) (`thermostat`)

To integrate a demo platform in Home Assistant, add the following section to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
[component]:
  - platform: demo
```

Configuration variables:

- **[component]** (*Required*): The name of the component as stated in the listing above the configuration example.