How to Install HACS in Home Assistant

The Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) allows users to download custom add-ons, integrations, themes, elements, and more for Home Assistant.

Install HACS on Supervised Home Assistant Server (HASSOS)

1. Go to Settings > Add-Ons in Home Assistant Server.
2. Search for Terminal & SSH in the ADD-ON STORE.
3. In the search results, click the Terminal & SSH add-on, and then click Install.
4. Once the installation is complete, click Start and then click OPEN WEB UI. A terminal window will appear.
5. Enter the following commands in the terminal window:
   cd /config
wget -O - https://get.hacs.xyz | bash -
6. You will find HACS in the configuration directory after you run this command.
7. Click Restart in the Developer Tools to restart the Home Assistant Server.
8. After the reboot, go to Settings > Devices & Services and click the ADD INTEGRATION button.
9. Search for HACS and click on it.
10. Check all items and click Submit. You will see a URL and a code.
11. Click on the displayed URL and sign in to your GitHub account to authorize. If you don’t have a GitHub account, sign up and then authorize.
12. In the next screen, enter the code that was displayed to you in the Home Assistant server.
13. Click Authorize HACS.
14. Back on your Home Assistant server, click Submit.
15. If everything goes well, you will see the Success screen. Choose the room and click Finish.
16. In the Settings > Devices & Services dashboard, you will see HACS.
17. Click Options or Configure and then enter a name and a number in the Number of releases to show field.
    

If anything goes wrong, you will be taken back to the configuration setup screen, where you can continue to set up HACS.