Can only see group of switches and not individual switch

Configuration
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I have been assiduously following the tutorials on youtube and I think I am almost at the point of getting my sonoff basic switch connected. Unfortunately, when I go into the gui I can only see a group for the switch. I cannot see an individual light, status or anything else.
My config is below:

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
# http:
#   base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

#group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

switch:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "sonoff1"
    state_topic: "stat/sonoff1/POWER"
    command_topic: "cmnd/sonoff1/POWER"
    availability_topic: "tele/sonoff1/LWT"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"
    retain: "false"

My GUI page looks like this. The only option relating to the switch is the group. There is nothing else.
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2

Probably because you are looking at badges only.

A switch isn’t a badge. It’s a switch

3

Thanks for the response. How do I add a switch to the GUI. It is not an option in any pull-down I have seen.

4

3 dot menu.

Configure UI.

hit the PLUS button on lower right corner.

Add a card. When you add that card, you should see the switch in the dropdown.

5

I must seem nuts but I don’t have a plus button on the bottom right. Only one right next to Home that says “add view”.

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If you don’t see the PLUS button in lower right, you might be blocking javascript?

7

Crazy. I tried a different computer and chrome and firefox. All the same. nothing in the bottom right.

8

I can see it now. The screen was in panel mode. It covers up the “+”.

9

When I go to entities “card configuration” the only things I see are Updater, All Switches, my name, Sun and Home.

10

And you restarted home assistant after adding the configuration into the yaml?

11

yep, a bunch of times. I just SSH and reboot to make sure I restarted the whole damn thing.

12

So you need to go to the developer tools/states page and see if your switch shows up at all there.

13

they are not there.

14

Did you install the MQTT add-on or do you have MQTT broker running somewhere on your network that you’ve configured through the GUI?

15

Probably your problem then!

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I installed the add-on.