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Install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, mini PC, or as a virtual machine in Proxmox or UTM.

Is home-assistant/installer beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, home-assistant/installer merged 42 of 44 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 7 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

Stars
10
Forks
12
Open beginner issues
7
Indexed issues
108
Avg merge
20h 4m
Merged PRs (30d)
162
Dominant language
TypeScript
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 21, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
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How to contribute to home-assistant/installer

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Pick one of the 7 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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  • Agree with the OS team how HAOS images can be verified end to end
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#328 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Align the Home Assistant installation docs with the installer flows
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#314 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Evaluate dropping VirtualBox as a supported platform
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#313 · 1 comment ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Decide what official UTM support for HAOS covers
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#312 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Test every installation flow on real hardware before the alpha
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    home-assistant/installer#303 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Decide whether the installer keeps downloaded images between runs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    home-assistant/installer#301 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Consider opt-in error reporting with Sentry
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    needs-decision

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

    home-assistant/installer#153 · 2 comments ·

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  • Handle elevation before the download, not after
    Open
    • Is something wrong?
    needs-decision platform: windows

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

    home-assistant/installer#145 · 2 comments ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Backend tasks for Alpha release
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    home-assistant/installer#55 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Dependency Dashboard
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    home-assistant/installer#32 ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Frontend tasks for Alpha release
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#16 · 1 comment ·

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  • Publish nightly builds as a rolling prerelease
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    home-assistant/installer#2 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Add a release workflow that publishes signed installers
    May be free again Open
    • Is something wrong?

    home-assistant/installer#1 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Keep the Proxmox login session out of the web page
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    home-assistant/installer#330 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Close the gaps in automated test coverage
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    home-assistant/installer#317 · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Ask before quitting from the Dock or logging out during an install on macOS
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

    home-assistant/installer#309 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Check dependencies for known vulnerabilities in CI
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 66/100

    home-assistant/installer#308 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Build a USB installer flow for generic x86 machines
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    home-assistant/installer#237 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Prepare the UI for translation
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    home-assistant/installer#181 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Sign the Windows installers
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?
    needs-decision platform: windows

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    home-assistant/installer#158 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

  • Finish the Web Awesome migration: form controls and the remaining clickable divs
    Possibly taken Open
    • Is something wrong?

    home-assistant/installer#17 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

    Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

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