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<p>Home Assistant offers a wide range of automations. In the next few pages we’ll try to guide you through all the different possibilities and options. Besides this documentation there are also a couple of people who have made their automation configurations <a href="/cookbook/#example-configurationyaml">publicly available</a>.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="the-basics-of-automation" href="#the-basics-of-automation"></a> The basics of automation</h3>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="automation-basics" href="#automation-basics"></a> Automation basics</h3>
<p>Before you can go ahead and create your own automations, it’s important to learn the basics. To explore the basics, let’s have a look at the following example home automation rule:</p>
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<div class="code"><pre>(trigger) When Paulus arrives home
<div class="language-text highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>(trigger) When Paulus arrives home
(condition) and it is after sunset:
(action) Turn the lights in the living room on
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<p>The example consists of three different parts: a trigger, a condition and an action.</p>
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<td>Entity ID</td>
<td>Unique identifier for the entity.</td>
<td><code>light.kitchen</code></td>
<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">light.kitchen</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>State</td>
<td>The current state of the device.</td>
<td><code>home</code></td>
<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">home</code></td>
</tr>
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<td>Attributes</td>
<td>Extra data related to the device and/or current state.</td>
<td><code>brightness</code></td>
<td><code class="highlighter-rouge">brightness</code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>State changes can be used as the source of triggers and the current state can be used in conditions.</p>
<p>Actions are all about calling services. To explore the available services open the <img src="/images/screenshots/developer-tool-services-icon.png" class="no-shadow" height="38" /> Services developer tool. Services allow to change anything. For example turn on a light, run a script or enable a scene. Each service has a domain and a name. For example the service <code>light.turn_on</code> is capable of turning on any light in your system. Services can be passed parameters to for example tell which device to turn on or what color to use.</p>
<p>Actions are all about calling services. To explore the available services open the <img src="/images/screenshots/developer-tool-services-icon.png" class="no-shadow" height="38" /> Services developer tool. Services allow to change anything. For example turn on a light, run a script or enable a scene. Each service has a domain and a name. For example the service <code class="highlighter-rouge">light.turn_on</code> is capable of turning on any light in your system. Services can be passed parameters to for example tell which device to turn on or what color to use.</p>
<h3><a href="/getting-started/automation-create-first/">Next step: Your First Automation »</a></h3>