developers.home-assistant/docs/add-ons/presentation.md

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Presenting your addon

If you decide to share your add-on to the public, paying attention to details is recommended. Of course, your add-on should have a proper name and description, but Home Assistant also gives you some other tools to present your add-on even nicer.

Adding intro

This shows in add-on store and give the user a short instruction what the addon can.

This file containing the intro is usually referred to as the "README", which is generally published as the README.md file.

Adding documentation

Good documentation helps the consumer of your add-on to understand its usage, explains configuration options, points users in the right direction in the case they have questions or issues, and contains the license under which the add-on was published.

This file containing the documentation is usually referred to as the "DOCS", which is generally published as the DOCS.md file.

Add-on icon & logo

A picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, your add-on can be improved by adding a proper image icon and logo. Those images are used when showing your add-on in the Home Assistant Supervisor panel and which will significantly improve the visual representation of your add-on.

Requirements for the logo of your add-on:

• The logo must be in the Portable Network Graphics format (.png).
• The filename must be logo.png.
• It is recommended to keep the logo size around 250x100px. You may choose to use a different size or aspect ratio as you seem fit for your add-on.

Requirements for the icon of your add-on:

• The icon must be in the Portable Network Graphics format (.png).
• The filename must be icon.png.
• The aspect ratio of the icon must be 1x1 (square).
• It is recommended to use an icon size of 128x128px.

Keeping a changelog

It is likely you are going to release newer versions of your add-on in the future. In case that happens, the users of your add-on would see an upgrade notice and probably want to know what changes were made in the latest version.

A changelog is a file which contains a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version of your add-on and is generally published as the CHANGELOG.md file.

If you are in need of a guide on keeping a changelog, we would recommend checking the keep a changelog website. They have developed a standard that is used by many open source projects around the world.

AppArmor

You can use own security profile for your add-on with AppArmor. By default it is enabled and uses the Docker default profile. Putting a apparmor.txt file into your add-on folder, will load that file as the primary profile instead. Use the config options to set the name of that profile.

apparmor.txt

#include <tunables/global>

profile ADDON_SLUG flags=(attach_disconnected,mediate_deleted) {
  #include <abstractions/base>

  # S6-Overlay
  /bin/** ix,
  /usr/bin/** ix,
  /usr/lib/bashio/** ix,
  /etc/s6/** ix,
  /run/s6/** ix,
  /etc/services.d/** rwix,
  /etc/cont-init.d/** rwix,
  /etc/cont-finish.d/** rwix,

  # Data access
  /data/** rw,
}

Ingress

Ingress allow users to access the add-on web interface via the Home Assistant UI. Authentication is handled by Home Assistant, so neither the user nor the add-on developer will need to care about the security or port forwarding. Users love this feature, however it is not every time simple to implement for the add-on developer.

To add Ingress support, follow the following steps:

• The add-on will need to provide the web interface on port 8099. Make sure that the add-on accepts only connections from 172.30.32.2 on that port and that the connections are treated as authenticated.
• Update add-on configuration and set ingress: true. Here it is also possible to configure the Ingress port (default 8099).
• If you need to configure the application inside your add-on with the right path and port, query the add-on info API endpoint.
• If the application doesn't support relative paths or you can't set a base url, you can use nginx filter to replace the URL with correct path.

Ingress API gateway supports the following:

• HTTP/1.x
• Streaming content
• Websockets