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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
• Discord Chat Server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
• Follow us on Twitter, use @home_assistant
• Join the Google+ community
• Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

{% 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.

• Issue tracker Home Assistant
• Issue tracker home-assistant.io (Website and documentation)
• Feature requests Home Assistant

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

• Home Automation with Home Assistant at PyDay Galicia 2017- June 2017
• Home Automation with Python at GLT 2017 - April 2017
• Home Assistant workshop at CLT 2017 - March 2017
• Home Assistant - Erweiterungen (Platforms/Components) at Puzzle ITC - December 2016
• Automating Your Life - Home Automation at Develop Denver 2016 - August
• Building Online Communities: Home Assistant - July 2016
• Home Assistant Support 101 - Getting around in Home Assistant (Slides) - June 2016
• Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things at PyCon 2016 - June 2016
• Automating your Home with Home Assistant at OpenIoT 2016 - March 2016

Looking for talking points or trivia?

{% linkable_title Media coverage %}

• Jupiter Broadcasting - No Privacy Compromise Home Automation - June 2017
• Castálio Podcast - Episódio 102: Marcelo Mello - Red Hat e Automação Residencial com Home Assistant - May 2017
• Paulus Schoutsen and Home Assistant - Episode 8 - March 2017
• Zammad, Home Assistant und Freifunk - are the winner of the Thomas-Krenn-Awards 2017 - March 2017
• 10 open source software tools for developing IoT applications - March 2017
• A Look at HASSbian: Raspberry Pi for Home Automation- March 2017
• Home Assistant with Paulus Schoutsen - Episode 94 - January 2017
• Episode #11 at minute 15:20 by Python Bytes - January 2017
• Home Assistant: The Python Approach to Home Automation - June 2016
• Secure home automation, without clouds or dedicated hubs - June 2016
• Weekend Project: Setting up Home Assistant on your PC or Mac by automated home - April 2016
• Episode 105 - DIY Home Automation Roundup by HomeTech.fm - April 2016
• 5 open source home automation tools by opensource.com - March 2016
• Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform - January 2015

{% linkable_title Site Search %}

There is not currently a site search for Home-Assistant.io but it's in the works. For now, you can use this Google link which will narrow your search to this specific site.

{% linkable_title Roadmap %}

There is no explicit roadmap available but the public tracker can give you some insight into what is going on.