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title: "Philips Hue"
description: "Instructions how to setup Philips Hue within Home Assistant."
date: 2015-03-23 20:09
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Philips Hue support is integrated into Home Assistant as a light platform. The preferred way to setup the Philips Hue platform is by enabling the [the discovery component]({{site_root}}/components/discovery/).

If you want to enable the light component directly, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
light:
  platform: hue
  host: DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS
```
