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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'.

### {% linkable_title Communication channels %}

- [Forum][forum]
- [Discord Chat Server][discord] for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
- Follow us on [Twitter][twitter], use [@home_assistant][twitter]
- Join the [Facebook community][facebook]
- Join the [Google+ community][google-plus]
- Join the Reddit in [/r/homeassistant][reddit]

### {% linkable_title 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](/help/reporting_issues/) page.

- [Issue tracker Home Assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues)
- [Issue tracker home-assistant.io](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues) (Website and documentation)
- [Issue tracker Frontend](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer/issues) (Frontend)
- [Issue tracker Hass.io](https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio/issues)
- [Feature requests Home Assistant](https://community.home-assistant.io/c/feature-requests) (Don't post feature requests in the issue trackers. Thanks.)

### {% linkable_title Videos, talks, workshops and alike %}

- [Build your own smart home with Home Assistant](https://zmonkey.org/blog/files/Home%20Assistant%202018%20v1.0.pdf) at [OpenWest](https://openwest.org) - June 2018
- [Automate your home with Home Assistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSrgi4iHGbs) at [foss-north 2018](http://foss-north.se/2018/speakers-and-talks.html#jparadies) - March 2018
- [Home Assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/english/2017-qecampX) at QECampX 2017 - October 2017
- [Open Source Heimautomation mit Home Assistant](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/german/2017-maker-faire-zurich) at [Mini Maker Faire Zurich 2017](https://www.makerfairezurich.ch/en/) - September 2017
- [Why we can't have the Internet of Nice Things: A home automation primer](https://www.openwest.org/custom/description.php?id=92) at [OpenWest 2017](https://www.openwest.org) - July 2017
- [Home Automation with Home Assistant](https://github.com/jjmontesl/talk-hass-pydaygalicia2017) at [PyDay Galicia 2017](https://pyday2017.python-vigo.es/gl/) - June 2017
- [Home Automation with Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNFZSSCPUyM) at [GLT 2017](https://glt17.linuxtage.at) - April 2017
- [Home Assistant workshop](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/german/2017-clt-workshop) at [CLT 2017](https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/de/) - March 2017
- [Home Assistant - Erweiterungen (Platforms/Components)](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/german/2016-puzzle) at [Puzzle ITC](https://www.puzzle.ch/de/) - December 2016
- [Automating Your Life - Home Automation](http://slides.com/teagan42/life_automation#/) at Develop Denver 2016 - August
- [Building Online Communities: Home Assistant](https://medium.com/@gitter/building-online-communities-home-assistant-8818dff671ad#.och4x4rhx) - July 2016
- [Home Assistant Support 101 - Getting around in Home Assistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfk9JAlPJk) ([Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PUnOpeFZxNj4LEjaohGqH_1hOGQGuS5yRHD1ThHr6nk/edit?usp=sharing)) - June 2016
- [Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfasc9EgbMU&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQB9JBcD7_ZfNcvC6xx47QHT&index=1) at PyCon 2016 - June 2016
- [Automating your Home with Home Assistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-6rTwKl6ww&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQB9JBcD7_ZfNcvC6xx47QHT&index=2) at OpenIoT 2016 - March 2016

Looking for [talking points](/help/talking-points/) or [trivia](/help/trivia)?

### {% linkable_title Media coverage %}

Don't miss the regular [Home Assistant podcasts](https://hasspodcast.io/).

- [Build a wireless MQTT weather sensor for your Home Assistant](https://www.smartlab.at/build-a-wireless-mqtt-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-for-your-home-assistant/) - October 2018
- [​Building a better thermostat with Home Assistant](https://opensource.com/article/18/8/build-thermostat-open-source-tools) - August 2018
- [​Home Assistant lets you automate your smart home without giving up privacy](https://www.the-ambient.com/features/home-assistant-automation-privacy-582) - May 2018
- [HackSpace magazine #6](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/rpi-magazines/issues/full_pdfs/000/000/013/original/HS_6_Digital_Optimised.pdf?1524495009) - May 2018
- [SmartThings vs Home Assistant](https://smarthome.university/smartthings-vs-home-assistant/) - April 2018
- [Feed the dog and close the door with an open source home automation system](https://opensource.com/article/18/3/smart-home-assistant) - March 2018
- [The winners of the Thomas-Krenn-Awards 2018](https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/tkmag/allgemein/die-gewinner-des-thomas-krenn-awards-2018-stehen-fest/) - March 2018
- [Best of Open Source Smart Home: Home Assistant vs OpenHAB](https://smarthome.university/your-smart-home-platform-home-assistant-vs-openhab/) - February 2018
- [Hausautomations-Schaltzentrale Home Assistant auf Python-Basis](https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2017-26-Hausautomations-Schaltzentrale-Home-Assistant-3909532.html) - December 2017
- [Using Home Assistant the ARTIK Cloud](https://developer.artik.io/documentation/developer-guide/wireless-iot/hass.html) - September 2017
- [Control home automation hardware with Home Assistant](http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2017/203/Home-Assistant) - August 2017
- [Smart Home Home Assistant KNX Alexa Sprachsteuerung](http://onesmarthome.de/smart-home-home-assistant-knx-alexa-sprachsteuerung/) - August 2017
- [Episode #122: Home Assistant: Pythonic Home Automation](https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/122/home-assistant-pythonic-home-automation) - July 2017
- [Smart Home Home Assistant Konfiguration mit YAML](http://onesmarthome.de/smart-home-home-assistant-konfiguration/) - July 2017
- [Why can't we have the Internet of Nice Things?](https://opensource.com/article/17/7/home-automation-primer) - July 2017
- [Smart Home Home Assistant Raspberry Pi Installation Hassbian](http://onesmarthome.de/smart-home-home-assistant-raspberry-pi-installation-hassbian/) - July 2017
- [Integrating Snips with Home Assistant](https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assistant-314723645c77) - June 2017
- [Jupiter Broadcasting - No Privacy Compromise Home Automation](http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/115566/no-privacy-compromise-home-automation/) - June 2017
- [Monitor IoT devices with Home Assistant and Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-home-assistant/) - June 2017
- [Castálio Podcast - Episódio 102: Marcelo Mello - Red Hat e Automação Residencial com Home Assistant](https://youtu.be/hZq8ucpzjCs﻿) - May 2017
- [Paulus Schoutsen and Home Assistant - Episode 8](http://codepop.com/open-sourcecraft/episodes/paulus-schoutsen/) - March 2017
- [Zammad, Home Assistant and Freifunk - are the winner of the Thomas-Krenn-Awards 2017](https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/tkmag/allgemein/zammad-home-assistant-und-freifunk-das-sind-die-gewinner-des-thomas-krenn-awards-2017/) - March 2017
- [10 open source software tools for developing IoT applications](http://www.cbronline.com/news/internet-of-things/10-open-source-software-tools-developing-iot-applications/) - March 2017
- [A Look at HASSbian: Raspberry Pi for Home Automation](http://www.piboards.com/2017/03/07/a-look-at-hassbian-raspberry-pi-for-home-automation/)- March 2017
- [Home Assistant with Paulus Schoutsen - Episode 94](https://www.podcastinit.com/episode-94-home-assistant-with-paulus-schoutsen/) - January 2017
- [Episode #11](https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/11/django-2.0-is-dropping-python-2-entirely-pipenv-for-profile-functionality-and-pythonic-home-automation) at minute 15:20 by [Python Bytes](https://pythonbytes.fm/) - January 2017
- [Now you can hide your smart home on the darknet](https://www.wired.com/2016/07/now-can-hide-smart-home-darknet/) - July 2016
- [Home Assistant: The Python Approach to Home Automation](https://www.linux.com/news/home-assistant-python-approach-home-automation-video) - June 2016
- [Secure home automation, without clouds or dedicated hubs](http://linuxgizmos.com/secure-home-automation-without-clouds-or-dedicated-hubs/) - June 2016
- [Weekend Project: Setting up Home Assistant on your PC or Mac](http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/software/weekend-project-setting-up-home-assistant-on-your-pc-or-mac.html) by [automated home](http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/) - April 2016
- [Episode 105 - DIY Home Automation Roundup](https://www.hometech.fm/shows/105) by [HomeTech.fm](https://www.hometech.fm/) - April 2016
- [5 open source home automation tools](https://opensource.com/life/16/3/5-open-source-home-automation-tools) by [opensource.com](https://opensource.com) - March 2016
- [Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform](http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/new-products/home-assistant-open-source-python-home-automation-platform.html) - January 2015

[forum]: https://community.home-assistant.io/
[twitter]: https://twitter.com/home_assistant
[facebook]: https://www.facebook.com/homeassistantio
[google-plus]: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/110560654828510104551/communities/106562234893511202708
[reddit]: https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant
[discord]: https://discord.gg/c5DvZ4e
