This category will stay in sync with our blog and be used for commenting.

Welcome to the Home Assistant month of “What the heck?!” 2022!
Share your “What the heck?!” moment or discuss/vote those of others.
Please read the blog post about this before posting in this forum category.

Questions about configuring Home Assistant to automate your house.

Blueprints are reusable automations that can easily be shared. For more information, see the blueprint documentation.

Need support installing Home Assistant? The community is happy to be of help!

Show off the cool projects, automations and configurations you made with Home Assistant!

Suggest a feature, get fellow users to vote on it and see it happen.

The Community Guides section is a place to share guides/tutorials with our community. Every post/topic in this section works like a Wiki and can be edited and improved by anybody.

Please note, guides provided in this section may be outdated/broken and are not supported by Home Assistant. Use these at your own risk.

Discuss the Home Assistant core and platforms. Visit the Documentation to get started.

This category is for everything about ESPHome. Topics do not have to be Home Assistant related.

Questions about third party integrations including projects created to work specifically with Home Assistant as well as 3rd party devices such as Alexa.

Discussion of Home Assistant mobile apps, both official (Home Assistant Companion) and third party

The hardware category is for discussions about hardware devices. For example, you could talk here about whether WeMo switches are good, how to set them up in general, and alike. But if you want help configuring them with Home Assistant, use the "configuration" category.

This category is for all things social. Want to organize a meetup? Talked about Home Assistant at a conference? Planning an exhibition using Home Assistant?

The archive category contains old forum categories and topics, that are no longer relevant. We keep them here as a source that can be searched and viewed.