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Welcome to the Home Assistant development documentation. This is the place to learn all about how Home Assistant works and how you can extend it with support for your devices and services!

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Diagram showing interaction between components and the Home Assistant core.
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The best way to familiarize yourself with Home Assistant is to watch the PyCon 2016 talk about Home Assistant and read through the [Python API docs].

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[Python API docs]: https://dev-docs.home-assistant.io