Having problems installing cards/plugins from HACS

I think I might be doing something wrong, or misunderstanding how the process works. This is the process I do… which obviously isn’t correct:

  1. Install plugin like “Lovelace animated weather card”. However, after installing the plugin, I see the message, " Not loaded This plugin is not added to your Lovelace resources."… so, I have to manually click on the “ADD TO LOVELACE” button. I thought this part should be automatic? Anyway… I then…

  2. Add the below lines to my ui-lovelace.yaml file:

  - url: /hacsfiles/weather-card/weather-card.js
    type: module
  1. Restart HASSIO
  2. Add the below card to the Lovelace GUI:
type: custom:weather-card
entity: weather.yourweatherentity
current: true
details: false
forecast: true

However, instead of seeing the card, I get the message:
Entity not available: weather.yourweatherentity

When I went to check, sure enough, there is no entity called anything close to that. I tried restarting HASSIO… however, it makes no difference.

What am I doing wrong? This is the second card I’ve installed that it’s been like pulling teeth to get it to work. I thought the whole point of HACS is not to have to fuss with manually forcing things to work.

EDIT: If I change the entity to weather.home, at least I get animated icons now… but it look like its just the builtin weather entity with the newer animated icons.

You just added the weather interface. You still have to add the weather data provider like the national weather service or darksky, etc.