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Components add support for devices, automation, and much much more to Home Assistant. The following things are supported out-of-the-box.

{% linkable_title Entities %}

Entities are things that you want to observe within Home Assistant. Support for these things are provided by the entity components Light, Switch, Thermostat, Media player, Device tracker, and Sun.


Support for these services is provided by the Home Assistant community and not the service providers.

{% linkable_title Organization %}

Type Description
Group Allows grouping of entities
Scene Allow defining preferred state of a set of entities

{% linkable_title Automation %}

Type Description
Automation Allow for automating service calls when a specific state is met.
Script Allow user to define scripts to run from within Home Assistant.
Zone Allow user to define zones within Home Assistant.
Device sun light trigger Slowly fade in the lights to compensate the setting sun. Also turns on lights when you get home after dark.
Simple alarm Let the lights blink red when the lights turn on while no one is home.

{% linkable_title Misc %}

Type Description
Configurator Component used by other components to get configuration from the user.