Set up and Use HACS in Dwelling Assistant

Dwelling Assistant Group Retailer, or HACS, is a robust integration for Dwelling Assistant that permits customers to obtain and set up customized add-ons, integrations, themes, components, and so forth. Uncover the right way to set up HACS on each the Supervised Dwelling Assistant server operating on a Raspberry Pi HASS OS and a non-supervised Dwelling Assistant Server operating in a Docker container on a Linux OS.

Set up HACS on Supervised Dwelling Assistant Server (HASS OS/Linux OS)

Comply with the steps under to obtain, set up, and arrange HACS in your Supervised Dwelling Assistant Server operating on Dwelling Assistant OS (HASS OS) or Linux.

1. In your Dwelling Assistant Server, navigate to Settings > Add-Ons.
2. Click on the ADD-ON STORE button after which seek for the Terminal & SSH add-on.
3. Click on on the Terminal & SSH add-on within the search outcomes after which click on Set up.

4. After the set up, click on Begin after which click on OPEN WEB UI. It will open a terminal window.
5. Within the terminal window, enter the next instructions:

    cd /config
   wget -O - https: 

6. It will obtain HACS within the config listing.

   

7. Go to Developer Instruments and click on Restart to reboot the Dwelling Assistant Server.
8. After the reboot, go to Settings > Units & Companies and click on the ADD INTEGRATION button.
9. Seek for HACS and click on on it.

   

10. Examine all objects and click on Submit. You will notice a URL and a code.
11. Click on on the displayed URL and register to your GitHub account to authorize. For those who don’t have a GitHub account, enroll after which authorize.
12. Within the subsequent display, enter the code that was exhibited to you within the Dwelling Assistant server.
13. Click on Authorize HACS.
14. Again in your Dwelling Assistant server, click on Submit.
15. If all the pieces goes properly, you will notice the Success display. Select the room and click on End.
16. Within the Settings > Units & Companies dashboard, you will notice HACS.

    

17. Click on Choices or Configure after which enter a reputation and a quantity within the Variety of releases to point out discipline.

    

18. Allow the AppDaemon and NetDaemon discovery choices and click on Submit.

In case one thing goes flawed, you can be taken again to the configuration setup display, the place you possibly can proceed to arrange HACS.

Set up HACS on Non-Supervised Dwelling Assistant Server (Docker on Linux OS)

As there’s no choice to put in add-ons within the non-supervised Dwelling Assistant server, we have to manually navigate to the Dwelling Assistant listing within the terminal window to obtain and set up HACS. The steps are as follows:

1. Within the SSH terminal window, navigate to the home-assistant listing utilizing the next command,

    cd /house/UserName/docker/home-assistant 

2. Then run the next command to obtain HACS.

    wget -O - https: 

3. It will obtain HACS within the listing the place the Dwelling Assistant quantity is mapped.
4. Now reboot the system.

    sudo reboot 

5. Open the net browser window and log in to your Dwelling Assistant server.
6. Go to Settings > Units & Companies after which click on the Add Integration button.
7. Use the search bar to search for “hacs”. Click on on HACS.
8. Examine all the pieces (it’s non-obligatory) and click on Submit.
9. You will notice a code. Word it down or copy it and click on on the URL displayed.
10. Register to your GitHub profile and paste or kind the code. Click on Proceed.
11. Click on the Authorize HACS button.
12. As soon as authorization is profitable, you possibly can restart Docker or the system.
13. After the system restarts, you can see that HACS is configured and able to use.

Now you can entry the HACS retailer from the sidebar and begin putting in the customized integrations and frontend customization playing cards and themes.

Putting in Customized Integrations and Themes Utilizing HACS

After putting in and configuring HACS efficiently in your supervised or non-supervised Dwelling Assistant server, you need to use the group retailer to seek for and set up customized integrations and themes. The steps are as follows:

1. Click on on the HACS choice within the sidebar after which click on on Integrations.

   

2. Click on the Discover & Obtain Repositories button.
3. Seek for the required integration you need to set up. For example, we put in the Tapo Controller that lets you combine or add your TP-Hyperlink Tapo IP (Wi-Fi) CCTV cameras to Dwelling Assistant Server.

   

4. As soon as you have discovered the required integration you want, click on on it after which click on the Obtain button.
5. After the mixing is downloaded, go to Developer Instruments and click on Restart. You might want to restart the Dwelling Assistant server for the adjustments to take impact.
6. Equally, you possibly can click on on HACS > Frontend to seek out and set up customized themes and playing cards to customise the appear and feel of your Dwelling Assistant dashboard, switches, and entities.

Following are some extremely beneficial HACS integrations and frontend customization themes and playing cards you possibly can set up through HACS:

• Mushroom card: One of the crucial well-liked frontend integrations, it lets you create machine management switches or buttons with a superb UI.
• Scheduler card: Allows you to create a schedule for the sensible units built-in into your Dwelling Assistant server based mostly on guidelines.
• Mini Media Participant: So as to add customization media participant playing cards within the Dwelling Assistant dashboard.
• Frigate: To make use of your Dwelling Assistant server a neighborhood NVR with real-time AI object detection utilizing OpenCV and TensorFlow for IP CCTV cameras.
• Alexa Media Participant: Helps to combine and use your Alexa Echo and FireTV in Dwelling Assistant.
• SmartThinQ LGE Sensor: For those who use sensible LG home equipment, equivalent to sensible Wi-Fi LG HVACs (air conditioner), you possibly can obtain the mixing to regulate and automate these units through Dwelling Assistant.
• Native Tuya: To manage Tuya sensible house units domestically (over the native community), with out an web connection.

There are tons of different integrations that you could be set up so as to add your sensible house units to the Dwelling Assistant server.

Customise Dwelling Assistant to Your Selection

With HACS, you get entry to a big selection of customized integrations and themes that you could set up to customise your Dwelling Assistant server as per your wants. For example, we added an LG AC controller from the HACS retailer to regulate our Wi-Fi-enabled window AC unit utilizing Dwelling Assistant. We additionally put in the Alexa Media Participant so as to add and management our Alexa units, equivalent to Echo Dot and Hearth TV.