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title: "Getting Started"
date: 2014-12-18 22:57
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After you got the demo mode running it is time to customize your configuration and enable some [built-in components]({{site_root}}/components/). See [`/config/home-assistant.conf.example`](https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant/blob/master/config/home-assistant.conf.example) for an example configuration.
<div class='note'><p class='title'>Note</p><p class='content'>
<p class='note'>
You can append <code>?api_password=YOUR_PASSWORD</code> to any url to log in automatically.
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<div class='note'><p class='title'>Note</p><p class='content'>
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For the light and switch component, you can specify multiple platforms by using sequential sections: [switch], [switch 2], [switch 3] etc
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### Philips Hue
To get Philips Hue working you will have to connect Home Assistant to the Hue bridge.
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password=MY_PASSWORD
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<div class='note'><p class='title'>Note on Tomato</p><p class='content'>
<p class='note' data-title='on Tomato'>
Tomato requires an extra config variable called `http_id`. The value can be obtained by logging in to the Tomato admin interface and search for `http_id` in the page source code.
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<div class='note'><p class='title'>Note on Luci</p><p class='content'>
<p class='note' data-title='on Luci'>
Before the Luci scanner can be used you have to install the luci RPC package on OpenWRT: <code>opkg install luci-mod-rpc</code>.
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Once tracking, the `device_tracker` component will maintain a file in your config dir called `known_devices.csv`. Edit this file to adjust which devices have to be tracked. Here you can also setup a url for each device to be used as the entity picture.