HACS
Community store for custom Home Assistant integrations and themes
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.
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 7.7k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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