HomeAssistant Development

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This skill provides a comprehensive toolkit for HomeAssistant power users and developers, offering specialized guidance for extending the smart home platform's capabilities. It covers the full development lifecycle, from writing complex Jinja2 template sensors and fetching data via REST APIs to building sophisticated Lovelace dashboards with custom HACS cards. For advanced users, it includes detailed patterns for creating full-featured Python integrations using the DataUpdateCoordinator, config flows, and device registry, ensuring that custom components are efficient, user-friendly, and follow HomeAssistant best practices.

Key Features

• Python integration boilerplate for config flows and data update coordinators
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• Standardized entity design using device classes and state classes
• Advanced Lovelace dashboard design patterns using core and custom HACS cards
• Best practices for Jinja2 templating, error handling, and asynchronous I/O
• Implementation guidance for Template, REST, and Command Line sensors

Use Cases

• Designing responsive, mobile-optimized dashboards with custom UI elements
• Creating complex sensors to calculate or aggregate data from multiple smart home devices
• Building new Python integrations to connect unsupported devices or APIs to HomeAssistant