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| title | description |
|---|---|
| Setup basic information | Setting up the basic info of Home Assistant. |
As part of the default onboarding process, Home Assistant can detect your location from IP address geolocation. Home Assistant will automatically select a temperature unit and time zone based on this location. You may adjust this during onboarding, or afterwards at {% my general title="Configuration -> General" %}.
If you prefer YAML, you can add the following information to your configuration.yaml:
homeassistant:
name: Home
latitude: 32.87336
longitude: 117.22743
elevation: 430
unit_system: metric
currency: USD
time_zone: "America/Los_Angeles"
external_url: "https://www.example.com"
internal_url: "http://homeassistant.local:8123"
allowlist_external_dirs:
- "/usr/var/dumping-ground"
- "/tmp"
allowlist_external_urls:
- "http://images.com/image1.png"
media_dirs:
media: "/media"
recordings: "/mnt/recordings"
legacy_templates: false
NOTE: You will not be able to edit anything in {% my general title="Configuration -> General" %} in the UI if you are using YAML configuration for any of the following: name, latitude, longitude, elevation, unit_system, temperature_unit, time_zone, external_url, internal_url.
{% configuration %}
name:
description: Name of the location where Home Assistant is running.
required: false
type: string
latitude:
description: Latitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.
required: false
type: float
longitude:
description: Longitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.
required: false
type: float
elevation:
description: Altitude above sea level in meters. Impacts weather/sunrise data.
required: false
type: integer
unit_system:
description: "metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial. This also sets temperature_unit, Celsius for Metric and Fahrenheit for Imperial"
required: false
type: string
temperature_unit:
description: "Override temperature unit set by unit_system. C for Celsius, F for Fahrenheit."
required: false
type: string
time_zone:
description: "Pick your time zone from the column TZ of Wikipedia's list of tz database time zones"
required: false
type: string
currency:
description: "Pick your currency code from the column Code of Wikipedia's list of ISO 4217 active codes"
required: false
type: string
external_url:
description: "The URL that Home Assistant is available on from the internet. For example: https://example.duckdns.org:8123. Note that this setting may only contain a protocol, hostname and port; using a path is not supported."
required: false
type: string
internal_url:
description: "The URL that Home Assistant is available on from your local network. For example: http://homeassistant.local:8123. Note that this setting may only contain a protocol, hostname and port; using a path is not supported."
required: false
type: string
customize:
description: "Customize entities."
required: false
type: string
customize_domain:
description: "Customize all entities in a domain."
required: false
type: string
customize_glob:
description: "Customize entities matching a pattern."
required: false
type: string
allowlist_external_dirs:
description: List of folders that can be used as sources for sending files.
required: false
type: list
allowlist_external_urls:
description: List of external URLs that can be fetched. URLs can match specific resources (e.g., http://10.10.10.12/images/image1.jpg) or a relative path that allows access to resources within it (e.g., http://10.10.10.12/images would allow access to anything under that path)
required: false
type: list
media_dirs:
description: A mapping of local media sources and their paths on disk.
required: false
type: map
legacy_templates:
description: Enable this option to restore pre-0.117 template rendering. Which renders all templates to string, instead of native types.
required: false
type: boolean
default: false
{% endconfiguration %}
Reload Core Service
Home Assistant offers a service to reload the core configuration while Home Assistant is running called {% my developer_call_service service="homeassistant.reload_core_config" %}. This allows you to change any of the above sections and see it being applied without having to restart Home Assistant. To call this service, go to the "{% my developer_services %}" tab under {% my developer_services title="Developer Tools" %}, select the {% my developer_call_service service="homeassistant.reload_core_config" %} service and click the "CALL SERVICE" button. Alternatively, you can press the "Reload Location & Customizations" button under {% my server_controls title="Configuration > Server Control" %}.