Sean Mooney c9e85b9361 Update basic setup instructions for onboarding (#10000)
Updated instructions to reflect onboarding improvements in Home Assistant 0.94 (see video in blog post: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/06/05/release-94/) and mention the fact that this can be updated directly in the user interface now.
2019-07-29 09:34:45 +02:00

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Setup basic information Setting up the basic info of Home Assistant. /getting-started/basic/

As part of the default onboarding proccess, 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 Configuration -> General.

If you prefer YAML, you can add the following information to your configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  latitude: 32.87336
  longitude: 117.22743
  elevation: 430
  unit_system: metric
  time_zone: America/Los_Angeles
  name: Home
  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - /usr/var/dumping-ground
    - /tmp

{% configuration %} 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." 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 name: description: Name of the location where Home Assistant is running. 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 whitelist_external_dirs: description: List of folders that can be used as sources for sending files. required: false type: list {% endconfiguration %}