Configurator Add-on Install

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have watched 4 or 5 youtube videos of people installing this app and using this app. I just cant get it to work even following step by step with them.

My theory is the " Option: ssh_keys (required)" which I have left blank and don’t understand what to put in it, however none of the youtube videos did anything with this or talked about it.

When I install and start the addon, I only get the following screen. It does show up on the sidebar, but is not working from the sidebar or from the “open web ui” option inside the app.

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Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

This is a bran new install of Home Assistant, I have changed or added nothing. I could format and start fresh if I needed, but as I haven’t changed anything and only have added a few addons, I haven’t tried the reinstall because I didn’t think that was the problem. (installed addons: Configurator, Mosquitto Broker, SSH server, Samba Share)

Thanks

2

This is my working config:

{
  "dirsfirst": true,
  "enforce_basepath": false,
  "ignore_pattern": [
    "__pycache__",
    ".cloud",
    "deps"
  ],
  "ssh_keys": []
}

I think that’s pretty much the default

3

well then having the “ssh_keys”: [] as that is not the problem. I have no idea where to go from here.

4

It could be a browser problem? Or cache perhaps? Also try a different browser.

5

Chrome and edge both the same. cache cleared.

6

Looks like you are blocking the css from coming through. Check extensions in the browser

7

Well that was fun. Tons of googling about blocking CSS. Didn’t figure out anything, but you said blocking, so I disabled a lot of things (firewalls, virus protection, malware,…) to see what was blocking… turns out my PiHole was blocking it. The only thing it shows being blocked is clients1.google.com which I highly doubt is the right thing, however disabling the PiHole for 10 seconds lets configurator load and work properly until I close edge again. I will keep trying to figure out how the 2 are related, but at least for now, thanks for saying “blocking” in your reply!!

8

Strange. A lot of people here use Pihole, including me, and I never had this problem. Did you include a custom blocklist or something ?

9

I imported a ton of custom stuff from years of manually blocking via hosts file. they are all probably not necessary as they are probably on the PiHole lists already. But I am more surprised that PiHole blocks locally, I thought it was for WAN IPs.

Oh well, at least this issue is solved. And if anyone gets that screen I posted, they have a possible starting point as well.

10

It’s not blocking locally. It’s trying to download the css from Google. You were blocking that download.