Cannot edit home zone

Configuration
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I am having the same issue. I cannot edit my home zone. I cannot find an entry for it in my configuration.yaml either… what are we missing?

2

By default it doesn’t exist in YAML - but if you update to 2024.8 you can edit it entirely in the UI.

3

Hi there,
Same here:

  • Cleared browser cache to be sure.
  • Home zone is not configured in the yml file(s).
  • UI shows the locked edit icon next to the home zone.
  • UI reports: Zones configured via configuration.yaml cannot be edited via the UI

Versions:

  • Core: 2024.8.0
  • Supervisor: 2024.08.0
  • Operating System: 12.4
  • Frontend: 20240806.1

Ideas?

4

I also cannot edit the home zone. The frontend says:
‘Zones configured via configuration.yaml cannot be edited via the UI.’

I have no zones configured in configuration.yaml.

Can it be because of custom entries in configuration.yaml under homeassistant section as below?

homeassistant:
   external_url: "my url"
   internal_url: "another url"
   customize:
   # Add an entry for each entity that you want to overwrite.
    sensor.house_power_battery:
        battery_warning: 30

Versions:

  • Core 2024.8.1
  • Supervisor 2024.08.0
  • Operating System 13.0
  • Frontend 20240809.0
5

Hi there,

Confirmed! I’m now able to modify the home zone after removing the “homeassistant” (and external_url & internal_url) bit from configuration.yaml.

Thanks!

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6

I have none of those statements in my configuration.yaml, home is OK, but I have two other locations that both state cannot be edited in UI. Both originally created in UI.
I have the following in configuration.yaml:

homeassistant:
  packages: !include_dir_named packages

What am I missing?

7

Hi
I also run into this. Can’t customise zone.home like the other zones. Removing the customisation from configuration.yaml is no option:

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Any idea how to fix this?

8

What do you mean by this? If you’re on HA version 2024.8 or greater, then you should be able to modify your home zone in the UI.

Do you have a customize: in your configuration.yaml, or a separate customize.yaml file in which you’re modifying home?

9

@ShadowFist
Well it’s mixed.

Via settings-zones, I can only edit the position and radius of the home zone, but I cannot edit the friendly name or icon (like the other zones)

Via settings-entities I can not customise as zone.home doesn’t have an unique ID

In the mean time I found out that the friendly name is automagically set by the system name.

Not a big deal, but just wondering why specially the home zone is limited like this

Suggestions to remove customisation in configuration.yaml is no option as I customised many entities via a separate customisation file: I extended for example every battery level sensor with the minimum level for that device.
I didn’t customise zones in that file

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Ah, I thought you couldn’t edit position or radius.

You’re right about not being able to edit the name or icon from the entities page. Then again, why would you?

I suspect it’s locked down to avoid deletion and renaming, given that other integrations like Sun use it heavily. At least the docs gave me this impression.

11

Yeah that sounds plausible :smiling_face:

12

Hi I also have the same problem. I would like to edit the Home zone but I can’t because from the web interface it appears not editable. I searched in my conf (using visual studio) if somewhere in the configuration there was set the Home zone but I didn’t find anything.
As a WAS I have adopted creating a new “real home” zone that is smaller than the uneditable one and have connected the new zone to my automations. If anyone knows how to delete the home zone it would be a cleaner job.

13

If you’re on HA 2024.8 or greater, then the Home zone location and radius is editable from Settings > Areas, labels & zones > Zones tab:

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You cannot edit the icon or friendly name.

14

I am having the same problem, after first install i was able to edit the home zone under: “Settings>Areas, Labels & Zones > Zones”. Now I added some lines to the configuration.yaml in order to use it with nginx proxy manager. My HA Version is: 2025.4.2 OS 15.2. My configuration looks like this:

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  1. Do not post pictures of code. Paste actual code, properly formatted
  2. Nothing in your screenshot resembles anything that would not let you edit the home zone if you’re on a recent HA version. If your version is somewhat recent, you should be getting warnings since external_url & internal_url were deprecated from yaml config 1-2 years ago.
  3. What is your actual issue with editing the home zone?
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  1. Sorry for posting the code as an image, it was my first post here.
  2. The external_url & internal_url where mentioned in the topic for setting up Home Assistant alongside with NGINX Proxy Manager. But since you said they were deprecated i removed them from my configuration.yaml. Regarding the warning no i didn’t get one.
  3. My actual issue was that besides being at the correct page (Settings>Areas, Labels & Zones > Zones) i suddenly couldn’t change the location or range of the homezone. But since i removed those deprecated parameters the home zone is editable again for me.

So thank you for mentioning that those parameters where deprecated.

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17

Here’s a tip for you if you’re just starting out.

Always check the date on any guide you follow regarding HA. With a new HA release every month, even a guide which is only a year old can be severely out of date

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18

Did anyone work this out in the end?

I cant edit the zone in the GUI, it tells me to edit the YAML and there is nothing in the config.yaml?

Thanks guys

19

for me I had to remove internal and external url from the config file… don’t ask me why lol :smiley:

20

Thank you!

I removed and the stuff underneath and the GUI works now.

homeassistant: