Chapter 2 — Setting Home Assistant Up
Lesson 4: How to Add HACS Integration to Home Assistant
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In this lesson
This lesson walks you through installing HACS — the Home Assistant Community Store — which unlocks hundreds of extra integrations, themes and frontend cards not available in the default HA store.
✅ What You'll Learn:
- Step-by-step instructions for installing HACS
- How to configure and start using HACS within Home Assistant
📌 Requirements:
- ✔ A Windows PC or Mac
- ✔ Home Assistant already set up and running
- ✔ GitHub account and token (from Lesson 3)
📋 HACS Install Command — run in SSH terminal:
wget -O - https://get.hacs.xyz | bash -