Downloading HACS
This section shows how to download HACS to your Home Assistant and how to troubleshoot some common issues.
To download HACS¶
How you download HACS depends on your Home Assistant installation type. In the instructions below, select the tab that matches your installation type (OS/Supervised, Container, or Core).
Warning
If you don't know what type of Home Assistant installation you are running, you should not use HACS (or any other custom integration).
For Home Assistant Operating System and Supervised, there is an add-on for downloading HACS. To add the custom add-on repository that allows you to get this add-on, follow these steps.
- To add the HACS add-on repository to your Home Assistant, select this my link.
- When prompted to confirm if you want to open the page in Home Assistant, check if the URL is correct. Then, select Open link.
- In the Missing add-on repository dialog, select Add.
- You have now added the repository that allows you to download HACS to Home Assistant.
- In the Get HACS add-on, select Install.
- Start the add-on.
- Navigate to the add-on logs and follow the instructions given there.
To set up HACS, you can use the HACS download script.
- Open a terminal.
- Go inside the container with
docker exec -it <name of container running homeassistant> bash. -
Run the HACS download script.
To set up HACS, you can use the HACS download script.
- Open a terminal.
- Change to the user that is running Home Assistant.
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Run the HACS download script.
Finalizing steps¶
- Restart Home Assistant.
- Follow the steps on setting up the HACS integration.
Troubleshooting¶
- Ctrl+V not working for you?
- Try Ctrl+Shift+V instead
- Try Ctrl+Ins
SHIFT+INS(insert)instead - Try
Right-clickinstead