A new home for every contributor
The developer docs, the design portal, and the data science portal are now one site, for everyone who helps build Home Assistant, code or no code.
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Help buildthe open home
Contributors
Code, design, documentation, translations, or community. Whatever you bring, this is where you start.
What do you want to do?
Build the software
- Build integrationsPython, core, and the integration platform.
- Work on the frontendDashboards, panels, and dialogs.
- Build appsPackage software that runs next to Home Assistant.
- Share what you buildPublish integrations, cards, themes, and blueprints for others to install.
- Work on the companion appsAndroid, iOS, and macOS.
- Work on the OS and SupervisorThe operating system, boards, and updates.
Design, write, translate
Run the project
- Grow the communityModeration, social media, and events.
- Test betas and releasesTry the beta, report what breaks, and see how a release comes together.
- See where we're headingHow ideas become planned work, and where you can help shape what comes next.
- Join an eventCommunity syncs and release days, and how to add them to your own calendar.
Understand how it works
From the blog
All postsDeviceInfo is now a dataclass
DeviceInfo and ChildDeviceInfo are no longer TypedDicts. They are dataclasses with typed fields, which are read and written as attributes.
4 min readNew entity lifecycle hooks
Two new entity lifecycle hooks have been added: async_prepare_to_add_to_hass and async_entity_id_changed.
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Coming up
All events and how to joinRelease days, meetups, and community syncs: video calls about one project, open to everyone who is interested. Select an event to see what it is about and how to join.