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HACS

Community store for custom Home Assistant integrations and themes

Home Automation ★ 7.8k stars Easy setup MIT

HACS, the Home Assistant Community Store, is an integration that lets users discover, install, and update community-built custom integrations, Lovelace cards, and themes from within Home Assistant. It dramatically extends what a Home Assistant install can do.

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Key features

  • Custom integration discovery
  • One-click installs and updates
  • Lovelace card and theme store
  • Deep Home Assistant integration

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Mature project with 7.8k GitHub stars
  • Written in Python

Is HACS secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect HACS's latest release (2.0.5). OSV.dev lists 1 past advisory for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2021-47942, published 2026-05-16 (151 days ago), fixed in 1.10.0

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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