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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](https://community.home-assistant.io/)
 - [Gitter Chatroom](https://gitter.im/home-assistant/home-assistant) for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
 - Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/home_assistant), use [@home_assistant](https://twitter.com/home_assistant)
 - Join the [Google+ community](https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/110560654828510104551/communities/106562234893511202708)
 - Join the [Reddit subreddit](https://reddit.com/r/homeassistant) in [/r/homeassistant](https://reddit.com/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](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues)
- [Issue tracker home-assistant.io](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues) (Website and documentation)
- [Feature requests Home Assistant](https://community.home-assistant.io/c/feature-requests)

### {% linkable_title Videos, interviews, talks, and alike %}

- [Home Assistant - Erweiterungen (Platforms/Components)](https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-assets/tree/master/german/2016-puzzle) at [Puzzle ITC](https://www.puzzle.ch/de/) - December 2016
- [Automating Your Life - Home Automation](http://slides.com/teagan42/life_automation#/) at Develop Denver 2016 - August
- [Building Online Communities: Home Assistant](https://medium.com/@gitter/building-online-communities-home-assistant-8818dff671ad#.och4x4rhx) - July 2016
- [Home Assistant Support 101 - Getting around in Home Assistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfk9JAlPJk) ([Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PUnOpeFZxNj4LEjaohGqH_1hOGQGuS5yRHD1ThHr6nk/edit?usp=sharing)) - June 2016
- [Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfasc9EgbMU&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQB9JBcD7_ZfNcvC6xx47QHT&index=1) at PyCon 2016 - June 2016
- [Automating your Home with Home Assistant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-6rTwKl6ww&list=PLKsVm4cWHDQB9JBcD7_ZfNcvC6xx47QHT&index=2) at OpenIoT 2016 - March 2016

Looking for [talking points](/help/talking-points/) or [trivia](/help/trivia)?

### {% 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](https://cse.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=005053695590750500199:dtrfi8yigbi) which will narrow your search to this specific site.

### {% linkable_title Roadmap %}

There is no explicit roadmap available but the public [tracker](https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/1250084) can give you some insight into what is going on.
