Custom section strategies in the dashboard editor
As of Home Assistant 2026.11, custom section strategies can be registered so users can add them from the dashboard editor, with a live preview.
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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 postsRepair issues can belong to a config entry, and be refreshed
Link a repair issue to its config entry, and Home Assistant deletes it when the entry is removed. Refresh a set of issues, and only the stale ones are deleted.
4 min readScannerEntity now handles devices like other entities
As of Home Assistant Core 2026.11, the integration decides which device a ScannerEntity is included in, like for any other entity, and a ScannerEntity is disabled by default.
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