HACS Turbo Installation Guide (Recommended for mainland China)

HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) is a third-party integration manager. HACS Turbo is designed for users in mainland China: simple to add, no GitHub registration / authorization required, installed in one click via the Donggua HAOS toolbox. Users overseas / outside mainland China should use the HACS (official) installation guide instead.

Community-maintained · not officially endorsed

The turbo path installs via the Donggua toolbox — a community-maintained, mainland-China adaptation, unaffiliated with and not endorsed by the official Home Assistant / HACS projects; its version tracks community updates (this guide targets 2.0.5.x) and can shift. It’s fine to use for convenience, but know the source and verify its safety. Users overseas / outside mainland China should use the official HACS.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure:

• Your Home Assistant is up and running, and you can access its dashboard.

• You are running Donggua HAOS (which includes the built-in “Donggua HAOS Companion” management tool).

• The default address opens from the device you are using:

  http://homeassistant.local:8123

  If it does not, find the HA IP as a fallback.

Not on Donggua HAOS? Then you can’t install the Turbo build

The Turbo build can install itself without a GitHub account only because Donggua HAOS ships a built-in “Donggua HAOS Companion” (on port 8124) — the install actually happens inside that companion. Only Donggua HAOS has it: official HAOS, and Container / Supervised / Core installs, do not, so the Turbo build simply isn’t available there.

One-second check: open:

http://homeassistant.local:8124

If the default address fails, retry once with the HA IP.

• The companion loads → you’re on Donggua HAOS; follow this page;
• It doesn’t load → you’re not on Donggua HAOS and this page won’t work for you — use HACS (official) instead (GitHub authorization, works on any HA).

Either one gives you the same store; once it’s installed, the bridge-integration and pairing steps are identical.

Name	OS	Core	HACS (official)	HACS Turbo
Version	17.0	2026.2.2	2.0.5	2.0.5.x

Telling the versions apart: the official version is 2.0.5, Turbo is 2.0.5.x. Users outside mainland China must use the official version.

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How to open the Donggua HAOS Companion

The management tool bundled with Donggua HAOS is called the Donggua HAOS Companion, running on port 8124. Open:

http://homeassistant.local:8124

If it opens, you do not need the HA IP. Only replace homeassistant.local with the HA IP when the default address fails.

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Installation Steps

Follow one video to install and enable HACS

Install HACS Turbo in Donggua Companion; after Home Assistant restarts, add the HACS integration.

Done when: HACS appears in the Home Assistant sidebar.

FAQ

Problem	Solution
”Failed to get a shared GitHub token, please retry”	The shared accounts are exhausted (too many users) — wait half a day or try again the next day; if it’s urgent, switch to the official version.
Can’t find HACS in search	Donggua HAOS usually ships with HACS built in; if it doesn’t show up, try clearing the browser cache or hard-refreshing (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + R), or restart Home Assistant once and search again.
Nothing happens after install/repair	Wait for Core to finish restarting automatically (about 1–2 minutes) before adding the integration.
Downloads are slow or failing	Usually a network issue — retry later or configure network acceleration.

Next

When HACS appears in the sidebar, do not stop in the store. Continue to install seenzus MQTT Bridge with HACS.

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Source of truth · verified against HACS Turbo 2.0.5.x · captured 2026-07 These docs are the single source of truth for install / branch content (docs-first): when the upstream (HACS / Donggua toolbox) UI changes, update the docs first; when the bridge plugin’s config-flow / quick-pair UI changes, update the docs first, then align the app’s four in-app frames — both stamps bumped together.