General thoughts on (getting started with) HA (hassbian)

[gpbenton (Graham)]

@txNgineer

An example of the “hair pulling” I have had recently was that the simple example of how to build sensors did not explain that you only mention the “platform: sensors” one time in all the yaml files.

You can contribute by editing the documentation to be more clear.

Editing the Documentation and Creating a Pull Request on Github

I have seen a number of people complain about the documentation at https://home-assistant.io/ (HA site). Great news! Everyone can edit it and provide improvements to the documentation. Next thing I likely see is that people don’t know how to create a pull request on Github. Great news! Here is a tutorial on how to do it. First go to https://github.com/ and sign up for an account. Its quick free and easy. If there is a need for a tutorial for this too, please post that feedback below. O…

The instructions are 18 months old , but I don’t think github procedures have changed in that time.