Next steps

The onboarding process takes you through the initial setup for Home Assistant, such as getting the system up and running, naming your home and selecting your location. This section points you to further documentation helping you with the next steps.

Adding other persons to Home Assistant

You can add other people to Home Assistant. They can have their own login, use Home Assistant on their devices and create their own dashboards. To add other people, refer to Adding a person to Home Assistant.

Apps for Android and iOS

You can use Home Assistant on your phone, smartwatch, and even in your car.

• To learn how to install Home Assistant on Android or iOS, refer to the documentation for the Companion Apps.
• Want to use your voice to control Home Assistant?
  • Refer to the documentation on using Assist on Android.

Changing the basic settings

To change basic settings such as location, unit system, and language, refer to Changing basic settings.

Creating a backup

You can back up your Home Assistant, add-on data, and configuration. Backups are used to restore a system or parts of it if a rollback is needed, or to migrate your Home Assistant to new hardware. It is good practice to create a backup before updating.

To learn how to create a backup of your Home Assistant installation, select the link below that matches your installation type.

• Home Assistant Operating SystemHome Assistant OS, the Home Assistant Operating System, is an embedded, minimalistic, operating system designed to run the Home Assistant ecosystem. It is the recommended installation method for most users. [Learn more]: Creating a backup from OS
• Home Assistant SupervisedHome Assistant Supervised is the full Home Assistant ecosystem, without the Home Assistant Operating System. [Learn more]: Creating a backup from Supervised
• Home Assistant CoreHome Assistant Core is the heart of Home Assistant itself. It is a Python program that powers every installation type, but can be installed standalone. [Learn more] or Home Assistant ContainerHome Assistant Container is a standalone container-based installation of Home Assistant Core. Any OCI compatible runtime can be used, but the documentation focus is on Docker. [Learn more]: Creating a backup from Core or Container

Editing the configuration.yaml and configuring file access

While you can configure most of Home Assistant from the user interface, for some integrations, you will need to edit the configuration.yaml file. This file contains integrations to be loaded along with their configurations. Throughout the documentation, you will find snippets that you can add to your configuration file to enable specific functionality. For starters, there is no need to edit the configuration.yaml file. You will be pointed to the documentation when this is needed.

Setting up network storage

If you need more space to store data, you can configure a network storage, for example to store backups or to access media.

Getting started with voice assistant

If you want to get started with a voice assistant, refer to the documentation on Assist.