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HACS Setup Without GitHub Account? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 months ago by brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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HACS has a problem with hitting the GitHub rate limit when you first install it. It’s not really that big of a deal. You usually just need to wait an hour for the local database to populate.

It used to be optional to link your GitHub to HACS to bypass the rate limiting but now it seems the installation requires it.

I’m not a fan of this as somebody who uses Homeassistant for its privacy values and am kind of frustrated HACS removed the ability to install without a GitHub API key.

Is there a manual way to override the API linking process?

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 3 months ago

Being reliant on GitHub is bullshit and why I never installed HACS.

Its antithetical to everything HA stands for.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does this work with the VM method? Or is this only needed during the install process?

[–] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I’m not familiar with the VM method. I’m installing through the addons menu in Homeassistant after running the HACS installation script per the documentation.

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel ya. Make a fake GitHub account, maybe?

Or manually download each custom component that you want?

[–] flappy@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Careful with fake accounts.

If they notice you're having more than one personal account (and they watch for that), you will get all accounts you have, except for one, shadowbanned.

[–] weker01@feddit.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well shit I've one for professional work and one for open source / bad code practice experiments... Am I in trouble?!

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 11 points 3 months ago

Big trouble, mister. They're gonna git you!