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title: "Creating custom panels"
description: "Introduction to create custom panels for Home Assistant."
date: 2016-07-29 13:00
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Starting with 0.25 there is support for custom panels. This means that you can create a frontend in the way you want and hook it into Home Assistant.
Create a `__init__.py` file which is loading the panel in a sub-folder like `sse_panel` of your `.homeassistant/custom_components/` folder.
```python
"""Custom panel example using Server-sent events."""
import os
from homeassistant.components.frontend import register_panel
DOMAIN = 'sse_panel'
DEPENDENCIES = ['frontend']
PANEL_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'sse.html')
def setup(hass, config):
"""Initialize the custom SSE panel."""
title = config.get(DOMAIN, {}).get('title')
config = None if title is None else {'title': title}
register_panel(hass, 'sse', PANEL_PATH, title='Hello SSE',
icon='mdi:checkbox-marked-outline', config=config)
return True
```
Use the sample from the [Server-sent Events](/developers/server_sent_events/)
```html
Getting Home Assistant server events
```
Create an entry for the new panel in your `configuration.yaml` file:
```yaml
sse_panel:
title: 'Server-sent Envent'
```
For more examples, see the [Custom panel Examples](/cookbook#custom-panel-examples) on our examples page.