Overview:
The content is about the Home Assistant website and provides information on setting up and contributing to the documentation. It also includes instructions for previewing the site locally and speeding up the site generation process.
Features:
- Home Assistant website: The content provides information about the Home Assistant website and its purpose.
- Setting up to contribute: It explains the process of setting up to contribute to the documentation of the Home Assistant website.
- Submitting pull requests: The content covers the process of submitting pull requests for the Home Assistant website.
- Site preview: It provides instructions on how to preview the Home Assistant website locally using a bundler command.
- Speeding up site generation: The content provides tools and commands to exclude blog posts temporarily in order to speed up the generation of the Home Assistant website.
Installation:
To install the Home Assistant website and contribute to its documentation, follow these steps:
- Refer to the developer documentation for detailed instructions on setting up the development environment.
- Clone the Home Assistant repository to your local machine.
- Navigate to the repository’s directory.
- Configure your development environment according to the instructions provided.
- Run the bundler command
bundler serve to preview the site locally. Use http://127.0.0.1:4000 to access the preview. - If the preview is not running on your local machine, pass the IP of the target machine as a parameter. For example, to access the preview on
http://192.168.0.123:4000, run the command bundler serve --host 192.168.0.123.
To speed up the site generation process, follow these steps:
- During development, exclude the blog posts that you are not currently working on to reduce the generation time.
- Run the command
bundler temp_posts_off to move the excluded blog posts out of the way. - Once you are done working on the site, run the command
bundler temp_posts_on to move the blog posts back again.
Summary:
The article provides information on the Home Assistant website, its setup and development process. It explains how to contribute to the documentation by submitting pull requests. The article also includes instructions for previewing the site locally and provides tips to speed up the site generation process by temporarily excluding blog posts.
