Appdaemon help to get HADashboard working

Hi all, trying to get AppDaemon running so I can move on with HADashboard setup/config but I’m running into issues.

Trying to start/test with:

appdaemon -c /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf

2018-11-07 02:39:30.919667 INFO AppDaemon Version 3.0.2 starting

2018-11-07 02:39:30.919974 INFO Configuration read from: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/appdaemon.yaml

2018-11-07 02:39:30.921429 WARNING config_file: /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/conf/appdaemon.yaml is owned by root but appdaemon is running as aj

2018-11-07 02:39:30.922291 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------

2018-11-07 02:39:30.922405 WARNING Unexpected error during run()

2018-11-07 02:39:30.922499 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------

2018-11-07 02:39:30.923938 WARNING Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/appdaemon/admain.py", line 76, in run

self.AD = ad.AppDaemon(self.logger, self.error, self.diag, loop, **appdaemon)

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 108, in __init__

self.plugin_params = kwargs["plugins"]

KeyError: 'plugins'

2018-11-07 02:39:30.924088 WARNING ------------------------------------------------------------

2018-11-07 02:39:30.924214 INFO AppDeamon Exited

Here is my initial appdaemon.yaml:

HASS:
  ha_url: http://192.168.1.101:8123
  ha_key: <my long life token>
appdaemon:
  logfile: STDOUT
  errorfile: STDERR
  threads: 10
HADashboard:
  dash_url: http://192.168.1.101:5050

Any thoughts? Been trying for awhile now to get Appdaemon working with no luck. All of this is being done on an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS server machine. Thanks much in advance

the log says it all.
the filerights from your appdaemon.yaml are wrong.

all files and subdirs inside the config dir need to be owned by the user that executes AD (in your case aj)
and they need to have read and write access.

after that you get problems because you didnt setup the appdaemon.yaml right. (no plugin)
look here:
https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CONFIGURE.html#

to set your configuration right.