Method for starting up a home network having a base station and at least one electrical device, wherein the following method steps are carried out: transmitting a registration request from the base station to a building-external configuration server, wherein the registration request comprises a first device identification of the base station; verifying the first device identification by means of the configuration server on the basis of a comparison with a predefined list of device identifications, wherein the predefined list of device identifications comes from a prior configuration process that involves user identifications of the list with associated device identifications from the base station and electrical devices being generated on the basis of a logon by the respective user by virtue of device identifications of the base station and of the at least one electrical device being read in using a barcode reader or using a smartphone and being assigned to this user by transmitting a registration request, which comprises a user identification, from a user of the home network; in response to a positive verification of the first device identification: transmitting a response to the registration request from the configuration server to the base station, wherein the response comprises a network key of the home network; and transmitting the network key by means of the base station to the at least one electrical device of the home network and coupling (204, 116) the at least one electrical device to the base station by using the network key. transmitting a registration request from the base station to a building-external configuration server, wherein the registration request comprises a first device identification of the base station; verifying the first device identification by means of the configuration server on the basis of a comparison with a predefined list of device identifications, wherein the predefined list of device identifications comes from a prior configuration process that involves user identifications of the list with associated device identifications from the base station and electrical devices being generated on the basis of a logon by the respective user by virtue of device identifications of the base station and of the at least one electrical device being read in using a barcode reader or using a smartphone and being assigned to this user by transmitting a registration request, which comprises a user identification, from a user of the home network; in response to a positive verification of the first device identification: transmitting a response to the registration request from the configuration server to the base station, wherein the response comprises a network key of the home network; and transmitting the network key by means of the base station to the at least one electrical device of the home network and coupling (204, 116) the at least one electrical device to the base station by using the network key. transmitting a response to the registration request from the configuration server to the base station, wherein the response comprises a network key of the home network; and transmitting the network key by means of the base station to the at least one electrical device of the home network and coupling (204, 116) the at least one electrical device to the base station by using the network key.