Configuration error

Third party integrations AppDaemon
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I’m trying to configure AppDaemon from a pip install, and have the following (basic) appdaemon.yaml file in ~/.homeassistant/conf:

appdaemon:
  logfile: STDOUT
  errorfile: STDERR
  threads: 10
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
      ha_url: https://<REDACTED>.duckdns.org
      ha_key: !secret home_assistant_key
      cert_path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/<REDACTED>.duckdns.org

When I start appdaemon (using sudo), I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/appdaemon", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/appdaemon/admain.py", line 230, in main
    conf.logfile = config['AppDaemon'].get("logfile")
KeyError: 'AppDaemon'

But, if I edit the apdaemon.yaml file so that the entry for appdaemon is in camelcase, i.e.:

AppDaemon:
  logfile: STDOUT
  errorfile: STDERR

…etc…

I get the following error instead:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/appdaemon", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/appdaemon/admain.py", line 248, in main
    conf.timeout = config['HASS'].get("timeout")
KeyError: 'HASS'

Following the same line of thought, if I then edit the appdaemon.yaml file to:

appdaemon:
  logfile: STDOUT
  errorfile: STDERR
  threads: 10
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
      ha_url: https://<REDACTED>.duckdns.org
      ha_key: !secret home_assistant_key
      cert_path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/<REDACTED>.duckdns.org

AppDaemon:
  logfile: STDOUT
  errorfile: STDERR
  threads: 10

HASS:
   ha_url: https://<REDACTED>.duckdns.org
   ha_key: !secret home_assistant_key
   cert_path: /etc/letsencrypt/live/<REDACTED>.duckdns.org

With this configuration, appdaemon connects to HomeAssistant but my example app (hello.py, as per the install docs) throws this error:

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/appdaemon/appdaemon.py", line 901, in read_app
    conf.modules[module_name] = importlib.import_module(module_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/home/simon/.homeassistant/conf/apps/hello.py", line 2, in <module>
    import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
ImportError: No module named 'appdaemon.plugins'

Any idea how to fix these errors / why they’re occuring? I’m fairly sure I’ve followed all the install steps detailed in the latest appdaemon docs… I’m running HomeAssistant 0.60.0 and AppDaemon 2.1.12.

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the problem is that the docs that are pointed to (latest) are now for the beta 3.0 version from appdaemon.
you need to use the docs from 2.1.12
http://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/2.1.12/index.html

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Ah yes, thanks. Working now…

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