There is no workaround for changing configuration.yaml, but there is almost certainly one for what you are actually trying to do, i.e. the big picture, if you care to describe it.
I have a configuration.yaml file that is allow me to have a thermostat card.
When I change the value of the thermostat manually on the card itself, it’s taken into account.
However if I restart Home Assistant, the card settings taken into account are the one into the configuration.yaml file and not my previous manual settings.
So when I restart Home Assistant, I would like to get back my previous settings and not the configuration.yaml settings.
I don’t know if this description of the problem is better than the previous one
I thought it could be possible with using any workaround such as node red like on value change to store this value in a dedicated file “persistent_data” then my configuration.yaml should be able to open this file to read the persistent data and so update the values:
Actually, just do no set those attributes.
The card will be funky the first time, but the values of the generic thermostat will then be correctly restored.
Hi, just tagging onto this post. Im looking for a way to lookup the values of the cold_tolerance or hot_tolerance in node red. This works for the temperature value, but the tolerances dont seem to be obtainable