Need help to add a custom repository

Configuration
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Hello,

i am using HomeAssistant (not HACS or HASSIO!) and want to add this Laz-y-spa integration:

How can i add a custom repository in HA?
I guess it is not in /etc/apt/sources.list, right?

Can someone give me a hint how to install this when NOT using HACS or HASSIO?

i am using
|Version |core-2022.5.2|
|Installationstyp |Home Assistant Core|

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Normally,

create directory custom_components in /config

download https://github.com/cdpuk/ha-bestway/archive/refs/tags/v1.2.0.zip

copy ha-bestway-1.2.0.zip\ha-bestway-1.2.0\custom_components\bestway in /config/custom_components

restart HA

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and repository?

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and repository? Just follow his directions to the T.

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in his text there is a howto for HACS

  1. Download and install HACS.
  2. Add a custom repository in HACS. You will need to enter the URL of this repository when prompted: https://github.com/cdpuk/ha-bestway.

But i dont know where and how to add a custom-repository " https://github.com/cdpuk/ha-bestway".
Not using HACS !

i already copied the files to /custom_components but Bestway doesnt appear in integration

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You can follow the HACS directions if you want, but I was referring to follwing @francisp’s directions.

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So what have i done?:

as francisp wrote i downloaded the zip, unpackt it and copied the Folder “Bestway” into /config/custom_components.
Restartet HA, but searching for Integrate “Bestway” doesnt find it.

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needs to be lowercase bestway.

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in ingegrate search or the Foldername?

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folder name

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sorry, yes the foldername is “bestway” not “Bestway”.
I am a little confused now.

so i copied out of the “ha-bestway-1.2.0.zip\ha-bestway-1.2.0\custom_components” folder the folder “bestway” into the …/config/custom_compenents folder. Is this ok so? or should i copy the contens of the “bestway” folder into custom… ?

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Everything in that folder, including the subfolders

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it doesn’t work.

here a screenshot of that folder:

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after that, you have to restart. Then according to the bestway docs, you have to find the integrations in the integration list and then add it.

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You are running HA 2022.5.2. A lot has changed in HA since then. Could be that the component is simply not compatible with that version.

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thats what i done…

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if i click find update HA sais there is no update.
Is there an easy way to update without dataloss?

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Here’s common tasks you can perform for the core installation method (update being one of them)

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wow, what a crazy update torture…
but finally it works (both, update and bestway) !!

I hope the update reminder of HA and also the Update Function works next time!

After the update I have one Error Message left:

Bitte verschiebe die Konfiguration auf den „mqtt“-Integrationsschlüssel und starte Home Assistant neu, um dieses Problem zu beheben. Weitere Informationen

manually MQTT’s…

How should i “move the mqtt-config to the Integration key” ?

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IIRC those entities don’t work with core. It’s all manual when you use the core installation.

There’s a years worth of breaking changes that you need to fix. Check out the MQTT examples to see how each one should be configured now. You shouldn’t have platform: mqtt anywhere in your config from this point forward.