Cannot create sensors.yaml

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I created a number of sensors within my configuration.yaml file and wanted to break up that into a separate sensors.yaml file. So initially I replaced all mentions of sensor within configuration.yaml with:

sensor: !include sensors.yaml

Nothing. Within my editor (Visual Code Studio, OS X), I can see sensors.yaml within the config directory. But it cannot be opened or created:

  • When attempting to open: “Unable to open ‘sensors.yaml’: File not found (file:///Volumes/config/sensors.yaml)”.
  • There’s a button to create file. When I try that: A system error occurred (ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘/Volumes/config/sensors.yaml’)"

I’ve tried creating a blank sensors.yaml file and then mv into config dir.

Caledonia:~ mlaich$ mv -fi ~/Desktop/sensors.yaml /Volumes/config/
overwrite /Volumes/config/sensors.yaml? (y/n [n]) y
mv: /Volumes/config/sensors.yaml: No such file or directory

What is happening, and why?

2

Isn’t it just /config/ ?
You’re trying to write to/create to a folder that doesn’t exist and you have no rights to

3

The folder does exist. I have a perfectly valid configuration.yaml file that lives there, amongst others.

4

I see /config/ as being in my root level folder with hassio

I don’t have a /volumes/ folder at all

Looks like you’re not using hassio?
Have you tried sudo mv etc?

5

Using hass.io, current version.
/Volumes/ is where it’s mounted. That’s not really the issue. /config/ is the root dir for hass.
Have tried sudo. Doesn’t work.

6

i pretty much only see those errors if I don’t have the rights to a folder or it doesn’t exist.

7

Thanks for trying to help. But i’ve got full access to the directory. I’m not sure what more I can do.

I’ll just go back to having my sensors all listed in configuration.yaml.

8

have you tried editing it directly with nano? I’m not sure what your -fi switches do…

9

Progress. Can (and have) created sensors.yaml manually via nano.

  • Works in hass
  • The file does not appear in file explorer (Finder in my Mac example).
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Makes me wonder if you’re creating the file in the folder you think you are. Maybe it’s using a different user/path? I’ve had that with regular Linux and a pi user and a root user end up with a file in a different path depending on the user…

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Doubt it.

Directory (not visible, but working): https://i.imgur.com/vD7snX8.png
Via terminal (visible and working): https://i.imgur.com/lWhkENp.png