Best practises to modify & test components

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I would like to modify and test my modifications of the velux component.

Now I follow the following procedure:

  • SSH into my raspberry via port 22222
  • once logged in and I see the “hassio” prompt, enter login
  • after login i type the following command: docker exec -t -i homeassistant /bin/bash
  • I edit /usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/velux/cover.py
  • reboot and test my modification

I have created inside my config directory a “/custom_components/velux/cover.py” directory and file but this does not override the original “cover.py” file.

What are the best practises to modify & test components?
The way I do it now is very slow.

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I don’t have much guidance but I would recommend not doing dev on your main instance just for speed reasons. A HA instance with nothing else running is quick to restart and check the config. It may speed up your process to just work on another machine.

3

Thanks for your advice!
I have installed the official Hass.io image to a raspberry pi 4 and nothing else is running on it, I haven’t added any extra stuff.