Default Config in Home Assistant
default_config
part of Home Assistant since 0.88
The Default Config integration is part of Home Assistant's core and handles initial setup tasks. It is configured in the configuration.yaml file to define basic system settings and integrations.
Typical uses
- Configuring UI settings
- Setting up initial automations
- Defining default entities
- Enabling core integrations
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Part of Home Assistant itself
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 533,384 (78.0 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Other
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Default Config in the Home Assistant issue tracker.
Open
- open Cloud integrations may activate automatically during a new HAOS installation without the user being asked for permission.
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
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Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
The description was written by a language model from the facts listed here, not taken from the documentation.