Help

There are various ways to get in touch with the Home Assistant community. It doesn’t matter if you have a question, need help, want to request a feature, or just say ‘Hi’.

Communication channels

• Forum
• Discord Chat Server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• Follow us on Mastodon, use @homeassistant@fosstodon.org
• Follow us on X, use @home_assistant
• Join the Facebook community
• Join the Reddit in /r/homeassistant

Bugs, Feature requests, and alike

Have you found an issue in your Home Assistant installation? Please report it. Reporting it makes it easy to track and ensures that it gets fixed. For more details please refer to Reporting issues page.

• Feature requests (Don’t post feature requests in the issue trackers. Thanks!)
• Issue tracker Home Assistant Core
• Issue tracker Home Assistant Frontend
• Issue tracker Home Assistant Supervisor
• Issue tracker Home Assistant Operating System
• Issue tracker Home Assistant Android App
• Issue tracker Home Assistant iOS App
• Issue tracker website & documentation

Videos, talks, workshops and alike

• PyconFR 2018 - Faire de la domotique libriste avec Python (French) (Slides) - October 2018
• Automate your home with Home Assistant at foss-north 2018 - March 2018
• Home Assistant - Smart Home für Jedermann (German) at Pi and More 2018 (Slides) - February 2018
• Why we can’t have the Internet of Nice Things: A home automation primer at OpenWest 2017 - July 2017
• Home Automation with Home Assistant at PyDay Galicia 2017 - June 2017
• Home Automation with Python at GLT 2017 - April 2017
• Home Assistant workshop at CLT 2017 at CLT 2017 - March 2017
• Home Assistant - Erweiterungen (Platforms/Components) at Puzzle ITC - December 2016
• Automating Your Life - Home Automation at Develop Denver 2016 - August
• Building Online Communities: Home Assistant - July 2016
• Home Assistant Support 101 - Getting around in Home Assistant (Slides) - June 2016
• Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things at PyCon 2016 - June 2016

Looking for talking points or trivia?

Media coverage

Don’t miss the regular Home Assistant podcasts.

• How to achieve smart home nirvana (or, home automation without subscription) - March 2021
• Why I use Home Assistant for open source home automation - November 2020
• Home Assistant, the Python IoT hub - June 2020
• Thomas-Krenn-Award 2020: Dino, Teckids und Home Assistant - June 2020
• Magical Smart Home Upgrade Lets Muggles Control Their Homes With a Wand Too - April 2019
• Thomas-Krenn-Award 2019 – The winners - March 2019
• How to set up and use Home Assistant: For Dummies edition - October 2018
• DINAcon begeistert 200 Teilnehmende und die Award-Gewinner 2018 - October 2018
• Build a wireless MQTT weather sensor for your Home Assistant - October 2018
• Nominations for the DINACon award 2018 - September 2018
• ​Building a better thermostat with Home Assistant - August 2018
• ​Home Assistant lets you automate your smart home without giving up privacy - May 2018
• HackSpace magazine #6 - May 2018
• SmartThings vs Home Assistant - April 2018
• Feed the dog and close the door with an open source home automation system - March 2018
• The winners of the Thomas-Krenn-Awards 2018 - March 2018
• Best of Open Source Smart Home: Home Assistant vs OpenHAB - February 2018
• Hausautomations-Schaltzentrale Home Assistant auf Python-Basis - December 2017
• Using Home Assistant the ARTIK Cloud - September 2017
• Control home automation hardware with Home Assistant - August 2017
• Smart Home Home Assistant KNX Alexa Sprachsteuerung - August 2017
• Episode #122: Home Assistant: Pythonic Home Automation - July 2017
• Smart Home Home Assistant Konfiguration mit YAML - July 2017
• Why can’t we have the Internet of Nice Things? - July 2017
• Smart Home Home Assistant Raspberry Pi Installation Hassbian - July 2017
• Jupiter Broadcasting - No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - June 2017
• Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog - June 2017
• Castálio Podcast - Episódio 102: Marcelo Mello - Red Hat e Automação Residencial com Home Assistant - May 2017
• Paulus Schoutsen and Home Assistant - Episode 8 - March 2017
• Zammad, Home Assistant and Freifunk - are the winner of the Thomas-Krenn-Awards 2017 - March 2017
• Home Assistant with Paulus Schoutsen - Episode 94 - January 2017
• Episode #11 at minute 15:20 by Python Bytes - January 2017
• Now you can hide your smart home on the darknet - July 2016
• Home Assistant: The Python Approach to Home Automation - June 2016
• Secure home automation, without clouds or dedicated hubs - June 2016
• Weekend Project: Setting up Home Assistant on your PC or Mac by automated home - April 2016
• Episode 105 - DIY Home Automation Roundup by HomeTech.fm - April 2016
• 5 open source home automation tools by opensource.com - March 2016
• Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform - January 2015