HA on Umbrel, no HACS?

Third party integrations
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New HA user, thanks to Umbrel.

For the life of me I cannot find how to install HACS in the user interface? Doesn’t exist in the Integrations search popup.

Thanks in advance!

2

First you have to download HACS and install it in the custom_components folder, restart HA, then you can install HACS using the user interface.

3

Thanks for the reply – I’m actually having trouble trying to get items placed in the custom_components folder to appear in Integrations, which is why I started looking for a HAC solution (re: Tapo P100 plugs, anyway :slight_smile:)

Is this location correct for custom_components? Or should it go in /data?

umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel/app-data/home-assistant $ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel   88 Jun 11 09:27 configuration.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel  405 Jun 11 09:26 configuration.yaml.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel   90 Jun  9 16:00 configuration.yaml.template
drwxr-xr-x 3 umbrel umbrel 4096 Jun 10 19:58 custom_components
drwxr-xr-x 6 umbrel umbrel 4096 Jun 11 09:32 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel  473 Jun  9 16:00 docker-compose.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel   80 Jun  9 16:00 exports.sh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 umbrel umbrel  124 Jun 11 09:27 torrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 umbrel umbrel  116 Jun  7 13:00 torrc.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 umbrel umbrel 1209 Jun  9 16:00 umbrel-app.yml
4

Looks correct. A folder in the folder configuration.yaml is present.

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Thanks. I’ll try again.

This is why I am confused: When I reboot the Umbrel, the file you see above, configuration.yaml is wiped clean.

However, if I go into the /data folder there is another empty file called configuration.yaml which doesn’t get erased / reset when I reboot the Umbrel. But HA seems to ignore whatever I add to this yaml file.

umbrel@umbrel:~/umbrel/app-data/home-assistant/data $ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root      4096 Jun 10 12:48 blueprints
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       144 Jun 11 09:46 configuration.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 3 root umbrel    4096 Jun 10 19:58 custom_components
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      4096 Jun 10 20:19 deps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       273 Jun 11 10:04 home-assistant.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       273 Jun 11 09:47 home-assistant.log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root         0 Jun 11 10:04 home-assistant.log.fault
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3928064 Jun 11 10:02 home-assistant_v2.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     32768 Jun 11 10:08 home-assistant_v2.db-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2657432 Jun 11 10:09 home-assistant_v2.db-wal
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The “data” folder on the host is very likely mounted as your “/config” folder in HA.
So ~/umbrel/app-data/home-assistant/data/custom_components is where you install HACS

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Thanks. Although I’m not sure if I’m making any progress. Configuration > Server controls > Configuration Validation works fine with the default configuration.yaml but as soon as I !include additional files located in the /data folder the config validator fails with “Unable to read file /data/configuration.yaml”

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Your /data on the host is seen as /config in HA.
The ~/umbrel/app-data/home-assistant/docker-compose.yml is where that happens.

Your includes are usually relative, so you !include sensors.yaml to include /config/sensors.yaml and you never include configuration.yaml. That’s the main configuration file read automatically by HA from /config

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Great thanks, that clears up some confusion.

Which leads me to my next issue, the Configuration Validator now just shows a spinning icon, and no progress.

I’ve got to bail on this for today, will check again tomorrow, cheers everyone for the help.

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If you actually include configuration.yaml from configuration.yaml, I can imagine it will loop forever indeed :wink:

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Nah I meant I created a new file called sensors.yaml and put an !include into the configuration.yaml … which gives me a spinning validation icon.