About blueprints - Home Assistant 2026.8.1 Getting started Documentation Installation Automations Dashboards Voice assistants Device organization Energy management Templating Configuration using the YAML file Our hardware Home Assistant Green Connect ZBT-2 Connect ZWA-2 Voice Preview Edition Integrations Blog Need help? On this page What is a blueprint? Related topics Related links Home ▸ Documentation About blueprints Blueprints are the easiest way to add automations, scripts, or template entities to your Home Assistant. Someone in the community has already done the work of writing the configuration, and you fill in the bits that are specific to your home, like which sensor to watch and which light to control. You can find a blueprint for almost any common use case in the community blueprint forum: motion-activated lights, low-battery notifications, holiday lighting, presence-based heating, and many more. This page is a high-level introduction. If you want to create your own blueprint to share, see About the blueprint schema. What is a blueprint? A blueprint is a scriptScripts are components that allow you to specify a sequence of actions to be executed by Home Assistant when turned on. [Learn more], automationAutomations in Home Assistant allow you to automatically respond to things that happen in and around your home. [Learn more], or template entity configuration where some parts have been left blank, ready for you to fill in. That way, the same blueprint can be reused over and over with different devices and settings. Imagine you want to turn on a light when motion is detected. A blueprint provides the generic automation, while letting you select which motion sensor and which light. You can use that same blueprint twice, once for the hallway and once for the bathroom, and end up with two completely independent automations that each behave the way you configured them. Automations inherit from the blueprint they were built on, so if the blueprint is updated, all automations using it pick up the change the next time Home Assistant reloads them. To reload manually, go to Settings > Tools > YAML and reload the automations. Blueprints are shared by the community in the blueprint community forum. Related topics About the blueprint schema About the blueprint selectors Using blueprints in automations Tutorial: create an automation blueprint Related links Blueprint community forum Help us improve our documentation Suggest an edit to this page, or provide/view feedback for this page. Edit Provide feedback View given feedback Documentation Overview | FAQ | Glossary Automations Basic automations Scenes Blueprints Tutorial Blueprint schema Selectors Scripts Dashboards Voice assistants Organization Home energy management Templating Common tasks Configuration Authentication Tools and helpers iOS and Android apps Official hardware Home Assistant Green Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Home Assistant Yellow Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition On this page What is a blueprint? Related topics Related links Back to top Home Assistant is a project from the Open Home Foundation. Join us and contribute! GitHub repo Developers Portal Design Portal Data Science Portal Community Forum Creator Network Works with Home Assistant Our community Reporting issues System status Integration Alerts Security Alerts System Status Companion apps iOS and Apple devices Android and Wear OS ...and more! Support us Merch store Home Assistant Cloud Governance Privacy Notices Contributor License Agreement Terms of Service Code of Conduct Credits License Follow us Sign up for our newsletter For partnership inquiries please check out Works with Home Assistant. For media, email our team. For other questions, you can contact support (No technical support!) Website powered by Jekyll Originally based on the Oscailte theme