diff --git a/homeassistant/setup.py b/homeassistant/setup.py
index fbacf672e1f..dedcc27e44e 100644
--- a/homeassistant/setup.py
+++ b/homeassistant/setup.py
@@ -22,9 +22,11 @@ DATA_SETUP = "setup_tasks"
 DATA_DEPS_REQS = "deps_reqs_processed"
 
 SLOW_SETUP_WARNING = 10
-# Since a pip install can run, we wait
-# 30 minutes to timeout
-SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT = 1800
+
+# Since its possible for databases to be
+# upwards of 36GiB (or larger) in the wild
+# we wait up to 3 hours for startup
+SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT = 10800
 
 
 @core.callback