in today's home assistant how-to we're going to be setting up and installing hacks
so let's get straight into it the first thing we're going to need to do is get an ssh client
if you've already got one then feel free to just skip ahead but if you haven't then just copy along
with me and install this default one so we're going to head into configuration on the left there
from here we're going to choose add-ons backups and supervisor then in the bottom right there
we're going to choose add-on store then up at the top in the search bar we're just going to type ssh
and we're going to be using this ssh and web terminal so go ahead and select that one
and then we're going to go ahead and hit install that should just take a second or
so to install but once that's installed you've got a couple of options for the add-on here
i'm going to turn on this watchdog so if the add-on ever crashes it will automatically restart
and the second one i'm going to turn on is this show inside bar just so it's easily accessible
the next thing we need to do is to just set a couple of bits of configuration for the add-on
so up at the top there if you press configuration inside the configuration you'll see this line
here line 10 for password so you'll need to set a password before you actually start the integration
and this password needs to be secure so you can't just put password123
so go ahead and enter a password there and once you've entered your password you're
going to press save up at the top we're going to choose info then from here we're going to just
press start in order to start the add-on with that started we can just go ahead and click open web ui
and that should take us to our ssh and web terminal if for whatever reason your ssh and
web terminal didn't open up if you head back into the add-on and go to the top and choose log you'll
be able to read a detailed log of what happened and you'll find the reason why it didn't start
carrying on then we're now going to need to install hacks in the description below you'll
find a url that you're going to need to copy then back over here we're gonna need to just
paste that in if when you're pressing ctrl and v to paste it in it's not pasting if you hit
ctrl shift and then v it should paste that in and with that pasted in you can go ahead and hit enter
again that's just gonna take a second to install hacks but once that's installed we can go ahead
and restart home assistant to do this we're just going to hit configuration then settings
and then restart once home assistant comes back to life we're going to just need to activate the
hacks integration to do this we're just going to hit configuration again then we're going
to choose devices and services then in the bottom right corner we're going to press add integration
and if we just start typing hacks it should just appear in our list we then just need to
select all the acknowledgement boxes and press submit the next step is going to be linking
hacks with github so i'm going to be assuming that you've already got a github account set up
if you haven't then go ahead and set one of those up and then come back to this step and if you have
already got one then all we're going to need to do is just copy this authorization code here
and with that authorization code copied we're just going to select the link
and if you're already signed into github it should just take you straight to this device
activation page and from here we can just paste that link in and hit continue all we now need to
do is just authorize hacks and we do this by just pressing this green button and once you press that
you'll hopefully see this congratulations message if you saw the congratulations message when you
flip back to home assistant you'll hopefully see this success one and from here we're just going
to press finish and then we can see hacks there in our list as well as now being in our integrations
list you'll also find hacks in the sidebar and if you head into hacks you'll find new bits for
your front end new integrations new add-ons and much much more if you're looking for a bit of
inspiration on things you can set up and install with hacks then check the description below
because i've got a few different videos on things that you can set up and install with hacks another
quick tip here if you see this message telling you that hacks is disabled due to rate limiting then
don't worry about it it is expected and it will just automatically clear itself one final thing
before we wrap this up if for whatever reason you can't see hacks or the little hacks icon is white
or just not displaying then it's more than likely just a browser cache issue and the simplest way
to fix this is if you just hit control and hit f5 that will clear your browser cache or you can
go and manually do that that will then hopefully show up and there we go that's been today's home
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