How to Install HACS in Home Assistant (Step-by-Step Guide 2025) | Home Assistant Community Store

Want to supercharge your Home Assistant setup? 🚀 In this step-by-step HACS installation guide, I’ll show you exactly how to install the Home Assistant Community Store (HACS) so you can unlock tons of powerful custom integrations and themes!

👉 In this video, you’ll learn:
Intro: What is HACS in Home Assistant
Why you should install HACS
Enable Advanced Mode in Home Assistant
Install the SSH & Terminal Add-on
Run the HACS installation command
Add the HACS integration in Home Assistant
Start installing custom integrations

HACS gives you access to hundreds of community-made integrations, automations, and frontend customizations that make your smart home even smarter. Please note that HACS integrations are created by the community and not officially tested by the Home Assistant core team — but they work great in most setups.

⚙️ Requirements before installing HACS:

* Home Assistant installed (HAOS version)
* SSH & Terminal Add-on installed
* Advanced Mode enabled
* A GitHub account

💡 Commands used in this tutorial:
Find all commands and links in the video description below.

The command to download HACS is :
wget -O - https://get.hacs.xyz | bash -

Having issues accessing https://get.hacs.xyz in the terminal?
Try it with
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hacs/get/main/get | bash -

⭐ NOTE: Since the update of HACS, the user interface of HACS changed. But don't worry, just search for an integration in that user interface to install new HACS integrations! ⭐

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:43 Enable Advanced mode in your profile
00:00:58 Install SSH Terminal
00:01:20 Install HACS

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