How to develop update to core supplied component?

[netmindz]

Hello

I’m looking to make some improvements to the python-wled library that is used by the WLED component that ships with HA

What is the recommended way to handle this? I’d ideally want to avoid having to rebuild the entire docker image while I’m trying to develop the new feature of being able to select which repo to look for builds from (I’m one of the MoonModules developers of WLED as well as the official AC team)

[koying (Chris B)]

Make wled a custom component, where you have control of the dependencies.

See the below thread for the steps. A custom component of the same name will override the builtin one.

How to create a custom component from one removed from HA itself

As recent HA releases do removal of integrations not maintained anymore, or just not in-line with the architecture decisions (see architecture/adr at master · home-assistant/architecture · GitHub for the up-to-date list), some users are left wondering what to do about that integration that is working for them, but which is not available anymore. The response is clear: make a custom component out of the latest available code. Now, that in itself might comes in 2 flavors: The happy one: someo…

[netmindz]

That tells me how to create the custom component - thank you.

Any tips regarding how I can get that component to reference my new version of pthon-wled before my PR has been accepted and a new release of that python module has been released?