Kay Ohtie

If you just want to use other repos, maybe a scheduled script is better than writing a full extension. Since most extensions are only on GitHub still you’d run into the rate limits without the API key pretty quickly unless you only poll once a day and only have a couple from it.

But sounds like basically HACS Lite would be the kind of thing you’d want otherwise. Rather than scratch I’d say just fork HACS since there’s already a framework there and alter it to remove that centralized repo checking and maybe add a config option for poll frequencies. You end up with something polished that’ll likely fit other folks needs and if you just call it “Lite” you might get interest from them even in it being an alternative version.

Including the limitations of options, albeit worse than Apple. I really don’t understand the hubris of that team.