#1 How to install HACS or other plugins

How is the proper way to install HACKS https://hacs.xyz/docs/installation/manual or other plugins (ie: https://github.com/AlexxIT/SonoffLAN) with this snap app?

I'm new to snap, so you may point me to some generic docs... but googling for that led me to couple of results that I don't think are correct. One said "uninstall snap and install regular packages" and another said "copy files over /var/snap/${PKG}/current/... which seems bit awkward.

Hi,

I haven't used Hacs myself, but from the documentation, this seems to be what you have to do, considering you're using Linux.

Download hacs

$ wget https://github.com/hacs/integration/releases/download/1.3.3/hacs.zip

Create the folder custom_components if this is your first custom component, which should be /var/snap/home-assistant-snap/current:

$ sudo mkdir /var/snap/home-assistant-snap/current/custom_components

Then unzip Hacs into this directory

$ sudo unzip hacs.zip -d /var/snap/home-assistant-snap/current/custom_components/hacs

Restart Home Assistant with

sudo snap restart home-assistant-snap

Add to you configuration as described in section 6.

I tried to follow this, and it works - however hacs has it's own dependencies, which HA tries to install. This fails because HA doesn't have access to write to the R-O file system. I'm looking into a solution for it. :)

Yes, I saw and tried that approach, but doesn't seem right to manually edit /var/snap/*/current files...

And I also noticed the deps problem. I'm using the container, for the time being... also noticed the container version (Core) lacks the addons... :-/

Anyway, thanks for your work!

Actually, since Snap-packages is running in an isolated environment, «/var/snap//current» (or revision #no) is one of the few R-W locations that a snap can read and write to.

This is the location you'll also find configuration.yaml too! :)

Regarding the «add-ons»;

Add-ons are only available if you've used the Home Assistant installer. If you installed Home Assistant using any other method then you cannot use add-ons (but you can achieve the same result manually).

Source

I've updated the candidate channel with a version where HA is allowed to install requirements Hacs (and its add-ons) needs. Additional data will be installed in the --user install directory for your platform. That should be within the .local directory, in the directory /var/snap/home-assistant-snap/current/.

I used the description given above.

Note! I had to restart HA trying to add the integration the first time, when it bounces back to the list of available integrations. After a restart it gave me the option to add the Github-token. When I had added the token I had to clear browser cache (as described) and restart HA again for the repositories to show up.

Ok, Thanks! Closing this issue :-)