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 **I do hope to improve this process in the future**
 
+**Step 0:** I cannot stress this enough - ***backup the config folder of your current HASS.Agent installation before reading further***
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 The original HASS.Agent repository is not available as far as I'm informed.<br>
 There are two options to approach this:
 - creating a new installer