HACS Not Showing Up After Install on HA Green

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Hello Home Assistant Community,

I’m experiencing a very persistent issue where HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) is not appearing in my sidebar or in the “Add Integration” list, despite multiple confirmed successful installations. I’m running Home Assistant OS on a Home Assistant Green, with Core version 2025.6.1 (current).

I’ve followed all standard troubleshooting steps, and what’s unique about my situation is the complete absence of any HACS-related errors in the Home Assistant Core logs.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve done:

  • Initial Installation: Ran wget -q -O - https://install.hacs.xyz | bash - successfully in the Terminal & SSH add-on. The script confirmed “Installation complete.”
  • File Verification: Used ls -l /config/custom_components/ and ls -l /config/custom_components/hacs to confirm the hacs folder and all its necessary files (init.py, manifest.json, etc.) are physically present on disk.
  • Troublesome Deletion: Initially, rm -rf hacs failed, but after re-checking, the folder was eventually confirmed empty.
  • Clean Re-installation: Performed a full manual deletion of the hacs folder, followed by a fresh re-run of the wgetinstallation command, again confirming “Installation complete.”
  • Multiple Restarts: Performed numerous full Home Assistant Core restarts (Settings > System > Restart).
  • Aggressive Browser Cache Clearing: Tried comprehensive cache clearing (hard reload, clearing all site data/cookies) on multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox) and devices, including using Incognito/Private windows and appending ?disable_cache=1 to the URL.
  • Log Check: Checked ha core logs -n 50 (and attempted journalctl) after each restart. Crucially, there are NO entries, warnings, or errors related to hacs , custom_components , ImportError , or Failed to load integration from HACS in the logs. (I do see unrelated Protobuf warnings for pyatv and Chromecast connection errors, which I believe are not relevant.)

Despite all of this, HACS simply does not appear as a sidebar item, nor is it available in the “Add Integration” search.

Has anyone encountered a scenario where HACS is confirmed installed on disk, no errors are logged, yet it doesn’t appear in the UI? I’m out of ideas for troubleshooting and would greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions before resorting to a full HAOS re-flash.

Thank you in advance for any help!

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This makes it sound like you tried to follow the Core installation steps instead of the OS installation steps.

Did you install the Addon first, and can you see it in the addon store? That seems to be a prerequisite before you can install the integration itself.

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This is a long shot, but have you tried:

http://192.168.1.125:8123/hacs/dashboard

using your Home Assistant IP.

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thank you - it seems I hadn’t added it via an add on to then give me the configuration option - have done now and see it - thanks for replies

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You’re welcome!
Great that it all worked out for you!

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