Home Assistant website
This is the source for the Home-Assistant.io website.
Access
You can access the site at the following URLs, depending on the target branch:
- Production (
currentbranch): https://www.home-assistant.io - Beta (
rcbranch): https://rc.home-assistant.io - Development (
nextbranch): https://next.home-assistant.io
Additionally, Netlify provides a preview deployment for every pull request, linked in the first PR comment.
Setup
Setting up to contribute to documentation and the process for submitting pull requests is explained in the developer documentation.
Site preview
In order to make the preview available on http://127.0.0.1:4000, use the following bundler command:
bundle exec rake previewIf the preview is not running on your local machine, pass the IP of the target machine from where it should be served as a parameter, i.e. to access on http://192.168.0.123:4000:
bundle exec rake preview[192.168.0.123]Speeding up site generation
Every release we post long changelogs to the website. This slows down generation of the website significantly! We include some tools to temporarily exclude the blog posts that you're not working on out of the way.
bundle exec rake isolate[filename-of-blogpost]When you're done working on the site, run the following command to move the posts back again:
bundle exec rake integrate