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This is a community curated list of different ways to use Home Assistant. Most of these examples are using the automation component and other built-in automation related and organization components available.

For python_script: examples visit the Scripts section in our forum.

New recipes can be added via the home-assistant.io repository.

A great place to find popular configurations is on this [GitHub search](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Ahome-assistant-config&type=Repositories) for repositories with the `home-assistant-config` topic.

{% assign cookbook = site.cookbook | sort: 'title' %} {% assign categories = cookbook | map: 'ha_category' | uniq | sort %}

{% for category in categories %}

{% linkable_title {{ category }} %}

{% if category == 'Automation Examples' %}

{% elsif category == 'Full configuration.yaml examples' %} Some users keep a public scrubbed copy of their configuration.yaml to learn from. {% elsif category == '' %}

{% endif %}

{% for recipe in cookbook %} {% if recipe.ha_category == category %} {% if recipe.ha_external_link %}

• {{recipe.title}} {% else %}
• {{recipe.title}} {% endif %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}