Where the community lives
The official places where the Home Assistant community meets, and what each one is for.
The Home Assistant community is spread over a handful of places. Each has its own strengths, and its own moderators. The code of conduct applies in all of them.
The community forum is the largest and longest-running place to get help. Questions and answers stay around and are easy to search, so a solved topic keeps helping people for years. It also has categories for sharing projects, blueprints, and community guides, and a Social section, where meetups are announced.
Use it for questions that need some time, for sharing what you built, and for anything others should be able to find later.
The Home Assistant Discord server is for live conversations. It is quick and informal, great for a fast question or a chat. Contributors use it too: there are channels for development and design, and a #beta channel for people testing the next release.
What is said on Discord is hard to find again later. When you solve something that others might run into, consider posting it on the forum as well.
The r/homeassistant subreddit is where many people share their setups, dashboards, and stories, and ask for advice. It is run by its own moderators, with its own rules.
The Home Assistant Facebook page shares news. There is also a Facebook group where people ask for and offer help.
The official accounts share news, releases, and highlights from the community. See Help on social media for the list.
The Open Home Foundation newsletter brings news about Home Assistant and the other projects of the foundation to your inbox.
Local meetups are listed on the Home Assistant Meetups calendar on Luma, and on the map on the community page. See Host a meetup.
There are also communities in other languages and regions. The community page lists the ones the team knows about (not an exhaustive list), like the French-speaking forum, a German-speaking Discord server and forum, and groups for Australia and New Zealand, Japan, Norway, and more. Is yours missing? Email [email protected].
GitHub is where the code and documentation live, and where bugs are reported. It is not a support channel: questions about using Home Assistant belong on the forum or Discord. Feature requests go to the feature request discussions, not to the issue trackers.