Join the community

You made it. You have Home Assistant installed and you have had a first taste of what it can do. From here, the best resource you have is not the documentation, it is the people who use Home Assistant every day.

A worldwide community of Home Assistant users hangs out on the forum and in the chat, all of them happy to help you figure things out, share what works in their homes, and trade automation ideas. Whatever you are trying to build, somebody has probably already done something close to it.

Here are some good places to start:

• Read up on the next steps of the getting started guide, like creating a backup or setting up network storage.
• Join the conversation on our forum or in our chat.
• Browse video tutorials for almost any Home Assistant topic you can think of.

Welcome to the community.