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r/homeassistant: HACS is becoming a built-in "Marketplace" in Home Assistant

Users weigh easier installs against blurring the line between official and community code.

HACS, the community store for unofficial Home Assistant integrations, cards and themes, has been merged into Home Assistant's development branch as a built-in component called Marketplace, targeting the 2026.11 release, Matter Alpha reports. Listings stay community-maintained, and installing one shows a warning first. The top reply welcomes it but worries new users will confuse "Marketplace" with official integrations; another says the name sounds like paid add-ons are coming.

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Reddit (r/homeassistant)HACS is becoming a built-in Marketplace in Home Assistant Core (targeting 2026.11) Independent ↗ Matter AlphaHome Assistant is bringing HACS into Core — and Marketplace could make custom integrations much easier Independent ↗

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After exploring HACS is becoming a built-in Marketplace in Home Assistant Core (targeting 2026.11), for the platform itself, see Home Assistant.

Free, open-source home-automation software that runs locally without cloud services and brings devices from different makers under one control point.

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r/homeassistant: rooting a $50 photo frame into a smart-home touch screen

The repo is a practical guide to reclaiming locked-down gadgets.

Developer Wes Bos shared how he rooted inexpensive Android photo frames from Amazon, installed a modern browser and turned them into Home Assistant dashboards, with scripts and notes on GitHub. Commenters asked whether the frames' old Android 6 is a security concern compared with an ESP32-based display.

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Reddit (r/homeassistant)these cheap photo frames can make a nice touch screen display Independent ↗ GitHub (wesbos)photo-frame-dashboard Affiliate links ↗

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After exploring these cheap photo frames can make a nice touch screen display, the technique he used is Rooting (Android).

Gaining privileged control over an Android device, similar to administrator access on Linux, since Android runs on a modified Linux kernel.

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