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Home Assistant will create a configuration folder when it is run for the first time. The location of the folder differs between operating systems: on OS X and Linux it's ~/.homeassistant and on Windows it's %APPDATA%/.homeassistant. If you want to use a different folder for configuration, run hass --config path/to/config.
Inside your configuration folder is the file configuration.yaml. This is the main file that contains which components will be loaded and what their configuration is. This file contains YAML code, which is explained briefly below. An example configuration file is located here.
When launched for the first time, Home Assistant will write a default configuration file enabling the web interface and device discovery. It can take up to a minute for your devices to be discovered and show up in the user interface.
If you run into trouble while configuring Home Assistant, have a look at the configuration troubleshooting page.
Install colorlog (`$ pip install colorlog`) to make the console output easier to read, hence also easier to catch errors and warnings.
You will have to restart Home Assistant each time you make changes in `configuration.yaml` in order for these to take effect.