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The core of Home Assistant is the event bus. The event bus allows any component to fire or listen for events. It is the core of everything. For example, any state change will be announced on the event bus as a `state_changed` event containing the previous and the new state of an entity.

Home Assistant contains a few built-in events that are used to coordinate between various components.

### {% linkable_title Event `homeassistant_start` %}
Event `homeassistant_start` is fired when all components from the configuration have been intitialized. This is the event that will start the timer firing off `time_changed` events.

### {% linkable_title Event `homeassistant_stop` %}
Event `homeassistant_stop` is fired when Home Assistant is shutting down. It should be used to close any open connection or release any resources.


### {% linkable_title Event `state_changed` %}
Event `state_changed` is fired when a state changes. Both `old_state` and `new_state` are state objects. [Documentation about state objects.](/topics/state_object/)

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`entity_id` | Entity ID of the changed entity. Example: `light.kitchen`
`old_state` | The previous state of the entity before it changed. This field is omitted if the entity is new.
`new_state` | The new state of the entity. This field is omitted if the entity is removed from the state machine.


### {% linkable_title Event `time_changed` %}
Event `time_changed` is fired every second by the timer and contains the current time.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`now` | A [datetime object](https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime) containing the current time in UTC.


### {% linkable_title Event `service_registered` %}
Event `service_registered` is fired when a new service has been registered within Home Assistant.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`domain` | Domain of the service. Example: `light`.
`service` | The service to call. Example: `turn_on`


### {% linkable_title Event `call_service` %}
Event `call_service` is fired to call a service.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`domain` | Domain of the service. Example: `light`.
`service` | The service to call. Example: `turn_on`
`service_data` | Dictionary with the service call parameters. Example: `{ 'brightness': 120 }`.
`service_call_id` | String with a unique call id. Example: `23123-4`.


### {% linkable_title Event `service_executed` %}
Event `service_executed` is fired by the service handler to indicate the service is done.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`service_call_id` | String with the unique call id of the service call that was executed. Example: `23123-4`.


### {% linkable_title Event `platform_discovered` %}
Event `platform_discovered` is fired when a new platform has been discovered by the [`discovery`](/components/discovery/) component.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`service` | The platform that is discovered. Example: `zwave`.
`discovered` | Dictionary containing discovery information. Example: `{ "host": "192.168.1.10", "port": 8889}`.


### {% linkable_title Event `component_loaded` %}
Event `component_loaded` is fired when a new component has been loaded and initialized.

Field | Description
----- | -----------
`component` | Domain of the component that has just been initialized. Example: `light`.
