Home Assistant Community Store (HACS)
According to their github page
HACS is a integration that gives the user a powerful UI to handle downloads of custom integrations and plugins.
Highlights of what HACS can do:
- Help you discover new custom elements.
- Help you install (download) new custom elements.
- Help you keep track of your custom elements.
In other words… it is a must have if you need to expand the functionalities of your Home Assistant installation with the non-official components created by the community.
See this video
Installation
The installation is easy. Just follow their wiki on github.
Please note that with the d-diot image you easily can access your home hassistant config folder via samba.
In the d-diot image the custom updater is not installed, so you don't have to remove anything.