diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix b/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
index 74702c97f551..cc113ca2d0c1 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/misc/home-assistant.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ let
     (recursiveUpdate defaultConfig cfg.config) else cfg.config));
   configFile = pkgs.runCommand "configuration.yaml" { preferLocalBuild = true; } ''
     ${pkgs.remarshal}/bin/json2yaml -i ${configJSON} -o $out
+    # Hack to support secrets, that are encoded as custom yaml objects,
+    # https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/
+    sed -i -e "s/'\!secret \(.*\)'/\!secret \1/" $out
   '';
 
   lovelaceConfigJSON = pkgs.writeText "ui-lovelace.json"
@@ -98,6 +101,10 @@ in {
         {
           homeassistant = {
             name = "Home";
+            latitude = "!secret latitude";
+            longitude = "!secret longitude";
+            elevation = "!secret elevation";
+            unit_system = "metric";
             time_zone = "UTC";
           };
           frontend = { };
@@ -108,6 +115,8 @@ in {
       description = ''
         Your <filename>configuration.yaml</filename> as a Nix attribute set.
         Beware that setting this option will delete your previous <filename>configuration.yaml</filename>.
+        <link xlink:href="https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/configuration/secrets/">Secrets</link>
+        are encoded as strings as shown in the example.
       '';
     };