[Essential Integration] HACS Vision — Card/List Views + Batch Updates + Integration Config + Star Sync
Hey everyone! Wanted to share an integration I've been working on — HACS Vision, a modern visual panel for HACS.
Why I built this
If you use Home Assistant, you know HACS is a must-have. But the default HACS interface has always felt a bit barebones:
- List-only view, everything looks the same
- Custom repos mixed with official ones, hard to tell apart
- Want to bookmark a favorite repo? No built-in feature for that
- Multiple updates? You have to do them one by one
- Reinstall HA? Have fun re-adding all your custom repos manually
- Want to see devices and entities under an integration? Gotta jump to the Devices & Services page
After using HACS for a while, I felt something was missing. So I built HACS Vision to solve all of these.
Features at a glance
- Card/List dual views — Cards for browsing, list for efficient searching. Toggle anytime
- Custom repo highlighting — Orange border + "Custom" tag, instantly recognizable
- Batch updates — One-click update all upgradable repos
- Favorites — Bookmark your go-to repos, no more hunting around
- Integration Management — Card grid of all installed integrations, Chinese search, batch operations, device/entity counts at a glance
- Device & Entity drill-down — Click integration → device list → real-time entity state & control
- GitHub login — Token, OAuth device flow, or import from HACS
- Config Flow — Configure any HA integration's Options Flow directly in the panel
- Add Integration — Start a new HA Config Flow from within the panel
- Backup & Restore — Export/import config, survive HA reinstalls
- Changelog preview — See what's changed before updating
- Auto Star — Auto-star the repo on GitHub when you log in
- Brand icons — Clean HACS branding throughout
Screenshots
Installation
Via HACS (Recommended)
- Make sure HACS is installed
- HACS → Integrations → Custom repositories (top-right menu)
- Add
https://github.com/C3H3-AI/hacs-vision, category: Integration - Install, then restart HA
Manual Installation
Download the latest Release, copy custom_components/hacs_vision to your HA's custom_components/ directory, and restart HA.
6 New Features:
Direct GitHub Issue Submission: One-click Issue submission from update cards and detail popups. It automatically collects logs and system info, uploads screenshots, and supports pasting GitHub screenshots.
Version-Level Update Skipping: Skip specific versions directly from update cards and detail popups. Reminders will resume on the next new release. This syncs with Home Assistant's native 
Skipped Versions Panel: A new "Show/Hide Skipped Updates (N)" toggle in the update page filter bar lets you expand or collapse skipped version cards and support "Unskip" actions.
Update Data Source Toggle: Switched from the internal HACS API to directly reading Home Assistant entities (
Bulk Skip: Added a "Bulk Skip" button to the action bar when multiple repositories are selected.
Store/Repository Management Sync: Skipped versions will no longer display an update button in both the Store and Repository Management interfaces.
新功能 / New Features
多语言引擎 / Multi-language Engine — 全新 LANG_MAP 语言检测体系，设置页增加语言手动选择器 / New LANG_MAP detection system with manual language selector in settings
德语支持 / German Support — 200+ 前端翻译键 + 后端 de.json 完整德语文界面 / 200+ frontend translation keys + backend de.json for full German UI
Issue 弹窗改版 / Issue Dialog Redesign — 左右分栏布局，预览右侧常驻，标题栏双击最大化，自动暂存草稿 / Left-right layout with preview on right, header double-click to maximize, auto-save draft
自动更新引擎 — 后台定时检测并自动安装白名单中的仓库更新。非重叠运行，Coalescing 防竞争。加载设置后 60 秒首次执行，随后按配置间隔周期性运行。双通道事件通知（async_dispatcher_send + hass.bus.async_fire），设置页面实时显示运行/已调度/已停止状态 — Background scheduler with non-overlapping execution, coalescing, 60s initial delay, configurable interval. Dual-channel event dispatch for real-time status display
白名单管理 — 设置面板弹窗分页设置自动更新白名单，支持搜索、分页（15条/页）、chips 已选展示、全选/取消全选、保存/取消 — Whitelist in a modal dialog with pagination (15/page), search, chip display, select/deselect all, save/cancel
仓库级自动更新开关 — 商店浏览页面和更新页面每个仓库卡片上添加滑块开关，乐观更新 + API 失败自动回滚 — Per-repo auto-update toggle on browse and updates pages, with optimistic UI update and rollback on failure
可调检测频率 — 支持 1h / 3h / 6h / 12h / 24h 五种间隔 — Configurable check intervals: 1h/3h/6h/12h/24h
更新通知 — 自动更新完成后发送 HA 持久通知（可开关），固定通知 ID 防堆积 — HA persistent notification on completed auto-update, fixed notification ID to prevent stacking
4 个后端服务 — trigger_auto_update（手动触发）、reload_auto_update_settings（重载设置）、start_auto_update/stop_auto_update（启停调度） — 4 backend services for manual trigger, reload, start/stop