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New blog post introducing discovery component

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Platform logic should not interface directly with the devices but use a third-party Python 3 library that speaks the actual API.
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## Allowing your platform to be discovered
Home Assistant has a discovery service running in the background to discover new devices. Whenever a new device is discovered, an `SERVICE_DISCOVERED` event will be fired with the found service and the information. The `discovery` component has some knowledge about which components handle which type of services and will ensure those are loaded and listening before firing the `SERVICE_DISCOVERED` event.