Installing HACS - the Home Assistant Community Store

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:37:00 - What is HACS
02:53:22 - Installing HACS
05:05:18 - What's new in HACS v2
06:37:21 - Upgrading from HACS v1 to v2

[dave_lawrence]

OMG - as a new HA user, even finding how to shut down or restart HA is hard. For example, I had to slow step through your guide to see what screen you were on when you clicked the three dots to the top right to bring up the menu that included restart. In the Settings screen it's there. Click on Devices and Services and the 3 dots on that screen (IDENTICAL SYMBOL IN IDENTICAL LOCATION) bring up a different menu. It just isn't intuitive. I end up thinking "I've seen that SOMEWHERE, but for the life of me I can't remember where". I would never have been able to install HACS without slow stepping through this, thank you!

[lukeyd]

Adaptive lighting is the best integration

[WoottonRivers]

The old hacs sensor that reported how many updates were available has gone. There are now individual update sensors - one for each hacs item added.

[schalkvandermerwe]

this is brilliant, thx!! excited to use the Victron HACS integration

[kensteeplejack]

The best Hac's integration for me is the 'solax inverter modbus' it supports most of the common solar inverter types and gives control of the inverter, and gives access to all of the sensors and selector switches. been using it for a couple of years now. along with the sunsynk power flow card, which comes a close second.

[AlexStoutdev]

Dang, I'm still getting rolling with HA and HACS. Was hoping to see some of the community's Top 3 as requested by our guy here. Post your top 3 HACS integrations guys!

[Qosmio]

I've painted myself into a bit of a corner with HA. It is now mission critical and controls the off-grid power system loads and equipment cooling at my home. I stopped upgrading the HA OS at release 2024.1.2 because i just got sick of losing functionality or even losing some integrations altogether, or ending up with logs full of warnings and problems. Fortunately, I run HA on a VM in Proxmox, so as long as I back-up before making changes, it is no big deal to go into reverse. But it is a big deal trying to sort out the issues that come with OS updates.

I think that I will probably have to spin up a new HA instance and run the non-mission critical stuff on that and leave the mission critical stuff alone on the existing instance. Then I'll have a play with the new HACS and see if it is worth it.

[Cratos]

Great Video as always! Thank you for your time and effort

[igorGriffiths]

Thanks for this, still getting settled into HA.

[MihaiKrieger]

6:34 - it means that, v1 would provide a sensor you could add to your dashboard to see how many pending updates there are. Since v2, you see that in the regular HA panel, and the sensor frm v1 is no longer there. Therefore, any automations and dashboard cards related to the old sensor is now broken and will appear as a Repair item in HA.

[ShcherbynaM]

The only question while I was using new HACS is where the update button hides? Do I have to click "redownload" instead of "update"?

[johnchittenden]

I’m a novice at this. Is there a list of the HAC’s integrations, if that’s what they are called, or do I need to install and then search if what I’m trying to control has already been done. Specifically, I would like to automate my outdoor zip roller shades by Dooya, which uses a Zigbee 3.0 protocol with a hand held remote. Am I the first one to want to do this in HA?

[pameton]

Shift+F5 clears the page cache before it reloads the page which is faster and let the rest of your cache untouched.

[TanzimulIslamTanzil]

Do you like the new frigate addon? Somehow It feels not right to me.

[LCMilstein]

Can you do one on how you actually use this now? I can't figure out how to only show my installed components, can't figure out how to only show those with updates available since I last updated them, and don't understand how this UI improves anything... I'm not a hater... I accept it must improve things, but it's just not clear to ME. Can you help educate?

[TuvaluHODL]

Is Frontend still needed? Sorry I’m new

[karlmee]

Moonraker for my Klipper based 3d Printer to be integrated into it for automations and to monitor the prints whilst I'm out and so I can emergency stop a print if I need to do that

[Rakshasa]

I assume the "Get HACS" addon can be removed once you have HACS 2.0 running, right?

[antoniodecrisci]

after installing, do you remove the addon?

[antonmevan]

hi Can you help me to integrate Google home. I don't understand to create google account master tocken