From 40aaaf9e09f082417784b47f364c6d1d4e049afe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Jefferies <jjok@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:48:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add description next to title (#227)

There wasn't really a description anwhere of what ESPHome actually is.
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 index.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/index.rst b/index.rst
index 512494cf5..0268c1aa7 100644
--- a/index.rst
+++ b/index.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ ESPHome
 
 .. image:: /images/logo-text.svg
 
+ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
+
 .. raw:: html
 
     <a href="https://github.com/esphome/esphome"><img src="/_images/shield-github.svg" alt="GitHub" class="index-shield"></a>