And if I drop the office multisensor and just have the stairs one I get this:
(homeassistant_venv) homeassistant@homepi:~ $ hass --script check_config
Testing configuration at /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
16-10-23 19:34:58 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.util.yaml] while scanning a simple key
in "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml", line 46, column 5
could not found expected ':'
in "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml", line 47, column 5
ALL the examples I am finding our laid out this way and people are in fact using these lines of configuration verbatim. So what’s going on? Is HA currently broken maybe? I’ve seen posts of people complaining that configuration files are braking.
But I thought that’s what the first number was for? ie the node. The second number seems rather arbitrary.
Part of my problem is that didn’t so much update as install… I’m a beginner and the learning curve here is massive, Especially due to the touchy nature of the configuration file.
No idea sorry, I’m only a month or so ahead of you. It gets a lot easier once a few things begin to click.
I have no prior programming experience or linux knowledge so I know where you are coming from. My advice would be not to try and do everything at once. Add on your devices and get them reporting sure but tackle the automations and so forth one thing at a time. Or one component if necessary.
Use the online yaml checker too, it can help you find formatting errors. Just paste your code in and hit go… http://www.yamllint.com/
I was messing with the configuration and at one stage HA decided that it didn’t see my zwave usb stick… so i pulled it out and plugged it back in and restarted HA…
The numbers on half of the sensors on my multisensor changed!!!
I can see this being a recurring problem
EDIT: Scratch that! IT actually lost part of the device names!
ie binary_sensor.__sensor_3_0 instead of binary_sensor.aeotec_multisensor_6_sensor_3_0