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Creating Components
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<p>Alright, youre ready to make your first component. AWESOME. Dont worry, weve tried hard to keep it as easy as possible.</p>
<h3><a class="title-link" name="example-component" href="#example-component"></a> Example component</h3>
<p>Add <code>hello_state:</code> to your <code>configuration.yaml</code> file and create a file <code>&lt;config_dir&gt;/custom_components/hello_state.py</code> with the below code to test it locally.</p>
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<div class="code"><pre>DOMAIN = <span class="string"><span class="delimiter">'</span><span class="content">hello_state</span><span class="delimiter">'</span></span>
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">setup</span>(hass, config):
hass.states.set(<span class="string"><span class="delimiter">'</span><span class="content">hello.world</span><span class="delimiter">'</span></span>, <span class="string"><span class="delimiter">'</span><span class="content">Paulus</span><span class="delimiter">'</span></span>)
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