Beginner Config Questions

Configuration
1

Please excuse any ignorance on my part, as I am very new to HA.

I have been playing around with HA on my Pi3 for several days now, and I believe that I have it running properly, as I don’t have any errors showing in my logbook. However, when I run hass in the terminal, the discovery is showing HA recognizing and discovering my chromecasts, but when I go into the YAML, nothing is in the yaml file for chromecast.

Also, when I try to use the frontend UI, all I see on the webpage is the HA logo, nothing else.

I know these are probably easy fixes, so thank you in advance for your help and patience!

2

It won’t show in your configuration file. You can see the state under developer tool (bottom of the left panel) and include it in your group.

3

Thank you! Should I try and add it manually, as I saw some sample yaml files that had chromecast mappings?

Also, what about my frontend UI? All it is showing when I go to the URL is the HA logo? And where do I find the developer tool? Is that on the frontend UI?

4

I had the same confusion and came to this conclusion. If you let HA auto discover your chromecast it will not show up in the configuration YAML. But you CAN manually add it in the configuration YAML if you’d like (I find that manually adding components lets them load quicker on launch).

I believe the developer tools masterkenobi is referring to are the buttons I pointed out in the picture below. Clicking the button I circled should bring up your components that you can click on to get more info.

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5

Thank you! I think I will try adding them in manually, just so that I remember that they are there haha.

What about my frontend UI problem? When I try and access URL using my Pi’s IP address:8123, all that I am met with is the HA logo. It’s as if the UI is trying to load, but never finishes and gets stuck on the logo. Am I doing something wrong or did I miss a step in the configuration? Thank you again!

6

Are you trying to access the frontend UI from Pi or from another computer that’s on the same network?

If it’s the latter, it may be the firewall issue addressed in the troubleshoot page listed under “No Access to FrontEnd”: https://home-assistant.io/getting-started/troubleshooting/

I also saw a topic posted a day ago that stated the latest update broke the frontend UI. You can try updating to see if it fixes the problem: pip3 install --upgrade homeassistant

7

I have been trying to access the frontend via the Pi directly. Has there been another release that fixed the previous UI update problem? Thank you!

8

Have you checked the log file on the machine running HA? Sounds like something in your config file is broken or formatted incorrectly…if so the log file should provide some clues.

9

Which Browser?? When I use the Epiphany browser I have the same problem. Never found an answer to the problem.
I installed Chrome and HA works flawlessly.

10

@treygeiger the logs are clean on my Pi, been able to whittle away all the initial errors that I have been receiving. When I run hass in the terminal, the http connection seems to be working properly, just nothing when I actually run the frontend.

@cdikland that is a very good point! I have been running Epiphany, as I didn’t think it would matter. I’ll install Chrome and see if that fixes the problem, which I think it very likely will. Thank you both very much!