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hushed kite Mar 5, 2025, 8:56 PM

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Chill chat about the development of Add-ons in Home Assistant. If you're looking to chat about developing custom add-ons, head to #1257019582112334014 and use the appropriate tag for help.

Please try to limit legitimate support issues to #1257019582112334014. 🙏

worldly relic Mar 18, 2025, 10:12 PM

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I'm struggling with the addon devcontainer - it worked great for me up till some time in January. Now I am stuck spending time figuring out why my dev environment isn't working rather than working on my addons. I'm having the same problem described in https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1327359598608519188 - but it is two months later. Frustrated.

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Have people quietly fixed this on their own environments, or is most addon development stalled?

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Or is there some clear documentation on how to resolve the issue I just haven't tracked down yet?

worldly relic Apr 1, 2025, 5:49 PM

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Looks like an issue that was either resolved recently, or my container just takes a really long time to start and be functional (without showing activity in the logs while it is getting it ready).

worldly relic Aug 25, 2025, 12:30 PM

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Has add-on development just stopped except for some elite that are able to work without the devcontainer? Coming back to this now, and yet another problem:

'AddonManager.install' blocked from execution, system is not healthy - setup

Is the devcontainer just always broken?

ruby oriole Aug 25, 2025, 12:46 PM

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as I need a usb device for my addon I just do it on my main HA instance...

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have a local addon there

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connect to it with VSCode

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there is no need to have a full blown devcontainer for just an addon

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in my situation it would only add complexitiy to get the usb device into the devcontainer...

worldly relic Aug 25, 2025, 1:37 PM

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I guess so, but the documenation starts by saying:

The fastest and recommended way to develop add-ons is using a local Visual Studio Code devcontainer. We maintain a devcontainer for this purpose which is used in all our add-on repositories.

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Certainly isn't the fastest way any more in my experience. It's been a mess since the start of the year.

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How do you handle using the production version of your add-on alongside the version you are developing?

ruby oriole Aug 25, 2025, 2:08 PM

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the production one comes from github

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and that has a nice icon so I know which one is installed

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as they have the same name you cannot install both anyway

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but I put the data in a folder in the share folder... and both the local and the production addon can use that

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