How to install the Home Assistant Community Store

Hi folks,

Home Assistant provides a lot of super cool features and the Lovelance dashboard that is fast, customizable (it includes 24 cards).

Ok everything is super nice but in this way you could feel just a little bit limited by this.

In order to try to be more flexible and being able to take the benefits the community gives in terms of integrations and user interfaces, it's quite mandatory to add to your Home Assistant setup the Home Assistant Community Store (aka HACS).

In this recent article I've introduced how to install Home Assistant on a QNAP NAS as docker hub image.

Today I'm going to show you how to add HACS to your Home Assistant container installation (you need your own GitHUB account as well).

Procedure

• Connect to your NAS via SSH
• Run the following commands:

docker exec -it home-assistant bash
wget -O - https://get.hacs.xyz | bash -
docker container restart homeassistant        

• Close the SSH connection

Since HACS is considered and managed by Home Assistant as an integration:

• Settings -> Devices & Services -> ADD Integration
• Look for the HACS integration and select it:

• Now acknowledge the following and confirm:

• The following pop-up will show up:

• Click the link and fill in the code above:

• The last step is to authorize the link between HACS and your GIThub account:

• Now restart your Home Assistant environment to complete the procedure and get the HACS menù just right here:

Well, now you can take all the advantages of HACS in terms of custom component related to integrations as well as frontend:

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