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title: "Adding devices to Home Assistant"
description: "Steps to help you get your devices in Home Assistant."
---
Home Assistant will be able to automatically discover many devices and services
available on your network.
See the [integrations overview page](/integrations/) to find installation
instructions for your devices and services. Most integration can be
fully configured via the user interface these days; however, some older or
more complex integrations may need to be configured manually using YAML.
For some of these integrations, every entity needs its own entry in the
`configuration.yaml` file. There are two styles for multiple entity entries:
## Style 1: Collect every entity under the "parent"
```yaml
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/bedroom/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 1"
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/kitchen/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 2"
- platform: rest
resource: "http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT"
name: "Weather"
switch:
- platform: vera
```
## Style 2: List each entity separately
You need to append numbers or strings to differentiate the entries, as in the
example below. The appended number or string must be unique.
```yaml
sensor bedroom:
platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/bedroom/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 1"
sensor kitchen:
platform: mqtt
state_topic: "home/kitchen/temperature"
name: "MQTT Sensor 2"
sensor weather:
platform: rest
resource: "http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT"
name: "Weather"
switch 1:
platform: vera
switch 2:
platform: vera
```