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title: "Automating Home Assistant"
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description: "A quick intro on getting your first automation going."
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Once your {% term devices %} are set up, it's time to put the cherry on the pie: {% term automation %}. We're going to create a simple automation to turn on the lights when the sun sets. Of course, this assumes that you have set up an integration that provides a light at this point.
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## Automatically turn on the lights before sunset
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1. Go to {% my automations title="**Settings** > **Automations & scenes**" %} and in the lower right corner, select the **Create Automation** button.
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- You are presented with a blank automation screen.
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2. The first step is defining what should {% term trigger %} the automation to run.
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- In this case, we want to use the event of the sun setting to trigger our automation.
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- Select **Add trigger**, type `Sun` and select it.
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3. Select **Sunset**.
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- We want the automation to be triggered a little before that, so let's add `-00:30` as the offset. This indicates that the automation will be triggered 30 minutes before sunset. Neat!
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4. Once we have defined our trigger, we need to define what should happen.
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- Select **Add action**.
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- Type `Ser` and select **Call service**
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5. Select **Light** > **Turn on** or directly enter `light.turn_on`.
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- For this automation, we're going to turn on all lights in the living room, so let's select the **Area**.
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- This only works if your lights are assigned to an {% term area %}.
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6. To save the automation, select **Save**, give the automation a name and **Save** again.
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- Now wait till it's 30 minutes until the sun sets and see your automation magic!
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{% include getting-started/next_step.html step="Presence detection" link="/getting-started/presence-detection/" %}
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If after completing this getting started you are interested in reading more
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about automations, we recommend the following pages:
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- [Triggers](/docs/automation/trigger/)
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- [Conditions](/docs/automation/condition/)
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- [Actions](/docs/automation/action/)
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Please note, these pages may require a bit more experience with Home Assistant
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than you probably have at this point of this tutorial.
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