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Integration quality scale

The Integration Quality Scale scores each integration based on the code quality and user experience. Each level of the quality scale consists of a list of requirements. If an integration matches all requirements, it's considered to have reached that level.

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Suggestions for changes can be done by creating an issue in the architecture repo.

No score​

This integration passes the bare minimum requirements to become part of the index.

Silver 🥈​

This integration is able to cope when things go wrong. It will not print any exceptions nor will it fill the log with retry attempts.

  • Satisfying all No score level requirements.
  • Connection/configuration is handled via a component.
  • Set an appropriate SCAN_INTERVAL (if a polling integration)
  • Raise PlatformNotReady if unable to connect during platform setup (if appropriate)
  • Handles expiration of auth credentials. Refresh if possible or print correct error and fail setup. If based on a config entry, should trigger a new config entry flow to re-authorize. (docs)
  • Handles internet unavailable. Log a warning once when unavailable, log once when reconnected.
  • Handles device/service unavailable. Log a warning once when unavailable, log once when reconnected.
  • Operations like service action calls and entity methods (e.g. Set HVAC Mode) have proper exception handling. Raise ServiceValidationError on invalid user input and raise HomeAssistantError for other failures such as a problem communicating with a device. Read more about raising exceptions.
  • Set available property to False if appropriate (docs)
  • Entities have unique ID (if available) (docs)

Gold 🥇​

This is a solid integration that is able to survive poor conditions and can be configured via the user interface.

  • Satisfying all Silver level requirements.
  • Configurable via config entries.
    • Don't allow configuring already configured device/service (example: no 2 entries for same hub)
    • Discoverable (if available)
    • Set unique ID in config flow (if available)
    • Raise ConfigEntryNotReady if unable to connect during entry setup (if appropriate)
  • Entities have device info (if available) (docs)
  • Tests
    • Full test coverage for the config flow
    • Above average test coverage for all integration modules
    • Tests for fetching data from the integration and controlling it (docs)
  • Has a code owner (docs)
  • Entities only subscribe to updates inside async_added_to_hass and unsubscribe inside async_will_remove_from_hass (docs)
  • Entities have correct device classes where appropriate (docs)
  • Supports entities being disabled and leverages Entity.entity_registry_enabled_default to disable less popular entities (docs)
  • If the device/service API can remove entities, the integration should make sure to clean up the entity and device registry.
  • When communicating with a device or service, the integration implements the diagnostics platform which redacts sensitive information.

Platinum 🏆​

Best of the best. The integration is completely async, meaning it's super fast. Integrations that reach platinum level will require approval by the code owner for each PR.

  • Satisfying all Gold level requirements.
  • Set appropriate PARALLEL_UPDATES constant (docs)
  • Support config entry unloading (called when config entry is removed)
  • Integration + dependency are async (docs)
  • Uses aiohttp or httpx and allows passing in websession (if making HTTP requests)
  • Handles expired credentials (if appropriate)

Internal 🏠​

Integrations which are part of Home Assistant are not rated but marked as internal.