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Components add support for devices, automation and much much more to Home Assistant. The following things are supported out-of-the-box.

{% linkable_title Entities %}

Entities are things that you want to observe within Home Assistant. Support for these things are provided by the entity components Light, Switch, Thermostat, Media player, Device tracker, Sun.

Type		Description
	Philips Hue	Turn lights on, control brightness and color.
	SABnzbd clients	Monitor queue and download speeds
	System Monitor	Track CPU, memory and disk usage on the host machine.
	Nest thermostats	See current temperature and control target temperature and away mode.
	Heat Control	Turn home Assistant into your own thermostat by reading a temperature sensor and controlling a switch connected to a heater.
	WeMo switches	Control WeMo switches and read the usage statistics from Insight switches.
	OpenWRT routers	Offers presence detection by looking at connected devices.
	Netgear routers	Offers presence detection by looking at connected devices.
	Tomato routers	Offers presence detection by looking at connected devices.
	NMap network scanning	Offers presence detection by scanning the network for connected devices.
	Transmission	Monitor status and download speeds.
	Google Cast devices	Track what is being played and control playback. (temporarely disabled awaiting protobuf 3 release)
	Insteon Devices	Insteon devices can be controlled with the ISY994 controller.
	X10 Devices	X10 devices can be controlled with the ISY994 controller.

Support for these devices is provided by the Home Assistant community and not the manufacturers of these devices.

{% linkable_title Organization %}

Type	Description
Group	Allows grouping of entities
Scene	Allow defining preferred state of a set of entities

{% linkable_title Hubs %}

Home Assistant integrates with a variety of third party Home Automation hubs and networks. It allows you to control the connected switches, lights and sensors via Home Assistant. Click on the following logo's for setup instructions:

Support for these devices is provided by the Home Assistant community and not the manufacturers of these devices.

{% linkable_title Services %}

	History	Track the state of entities and allow users to browse through history.
	Conversation	Process textual commands like ones received by speech-to-text engines.
	Discovery	Scans the network for supported devices.
	Logbook	Provides a logbook-style view on the Entity history.
	PushBullet	Allow sending messages using PushBullet
	PushOver	Allow sending messages using PushOver
	Browser	Open URLs on the host machine
	Downloader	Allows downloading URLs to the host machine.
	Keyboard	Simulate key presses on the host machine
	OpenWeatherMap	Display current meteorological data from your location

Support for these services is provided by the Home Assistant community and not the service providers.

{% linkable_title Automation %}

Type	Description
Automation	Allow for automating service calls when a specific state is met
Scheduler	Allows for scheduling service calls when sun sets or it is specific time
Script	Allow user to define scripts to run from within Home Assistant
Device sun light trigger	Slowly fade in the lights to compensate the setting sun. Also turns on lights when you get home after dark.
Simple alarm	Let the lights blink red when the lights turn on while no one is home.

{% linkable_title Misc %}

Type	Description
Configurator	Component used by other components to get configuration from the user.

{% comment %} {% directory path:components exclude:index %}

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