Install HACS on Core

Configuration
1

I am just doing my first steps in Home Assistant and wanted to install HACS.

My installation of Home Assistant Core on a Mac looks like this:

pip install virtualenv

cd ~/Documents
python3 -m venv homeassistant
source homeassistant/bin/activate
pip3 install homeassistant
cd homeassistant/bin/
./hass

Then I copied the files and restarted HA:
/Users/server/.homeassistant/config/custom_components/hacs

But I don’t see HACS showing up…

Did I miss something?

2

That doesn’t look like the correct path to your config folder. It’s ~/.homeassistant/, not /Users/server/.homeassistant/config/.

Of course, if you follow the HACS documentation it has a script that handles that for you.

3

~/. is /Users/server on a Mac for a user named ‘server’, there’s no /home on OSX. So the only issue is that you need to remove the config from the path. It goes directly into /Users/server/.homeassistant/custom_components

4

Even if I use the path

/Users/server/.homeassistant/custom_components/hacs

and restart, it still doesn’t show up in the menu on the left.

5

No idea then. Macs are weird. Are you sure that all the other HA related config stuff (like configuration.yaml) is in /Users/server/.homeassistant ? Are you sure you’re running hass as user server ?

Also check the HA logs on startup. See if there’s some warning / error coming up related to HACS.

6

Check HA’s log file to see if it found it.

Remember that you still have to configure it after installing it. You are following along with the documentation to install and configure this?

7

Well I missed that there was a second step. :slight_smile:

But since I need cloud access I might as well just uninstall it right away.

Thanks anyway