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title: "Setup basic information"
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description: "Setting up the basic info of Home Assistant."
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redirect_from: /getting-started/basic/
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---
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By default, Home Assistant will try to detect your location from IP address geolocation. Home Assistant will automatically select a temperature unit and time zone based on this location. You can overwrite this by adding the following information to your `configuration.yaml`:
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```yaml
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homeassistant:
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latitude: 32.87336
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longitude: 117.22743
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elevation: 430
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unit_system: metric
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time_zone: America/Los_Angeles
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name: Home
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whitelist_external_dirs:
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- /usr/var/dumping-ground
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- /tmp
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```
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{% configuration %}
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latitude:
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description: Latitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.
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required: false
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type: float
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longitude:
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description: Longitude of your location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets.
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required: false
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type: float
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elevation:
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description: Altitude above sea level in meters. Impacts weather/sunrise data.
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required: false
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type: integer
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unit_system:
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description: "`metric` for Metric, `imperial` for Imperial."
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required: false
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type: string
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time_zone:
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description: "Pick your time zone from the column **TZ** of [Wikipedia's list of tz database time zones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones)"
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required: false
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type: string
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name:
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description: Name of the location where Home Assistant is running.
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required: false
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type: string
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customize:
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description: "[Customize](/docs/configuration/customizing-devices/) entities."
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required: false
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type: string
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customize_domain:
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description: "[Customize](/docs/configuration/customizing-devices/) all entities in a domain."
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required: false
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type: string
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customize_glob:
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description: "[Customize](/docs/configuration/customizing-devices/) entities matching a pattern."
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required: false
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type: string
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whitelist_external_dirs:
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description: List of folders that can be used as sources for sending files.
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required: false
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type: list
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{% endconfiguration %}
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