Home Assistant default password & login

Open-source home automation hub. No default credentials — Home Assistant creates the first administrator account during the onboarding step on first launch.

Use these credentials for the very first login to Home Assistant only. The full vendor documentation linked below explains how to rotate them and harden the install.

Default username
Set during install / first-run wizard
Default password
Set during install / first-run wizard
Default port
8123(Home Assistant)
Default admin URL
http://homeassistant.local:8123

Notes & recovery

If you lost the admin password, append "?legacy=1" to the URL after resetting the password via the recovery console (or restore from snapshot).

Official documentation →

Change the default immediately

Anyone with internet access can try the published default on Home Assistant. Set a strong, unique password the moment you finish first-time setup, ideally before exposing the service to your LAN.

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