Darksky sensor not working in hassio 0.86.4

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Initially, I added darksky to my config.yaml and Lovelace UI. I’ve changed my approach and decided to use the darksky sensor to integrate the outside temp into a graph with my inside temperatures. Hassio does not see the sensors and I have nothing in the log related to darksky. I’ve tried refreshing the api key without success.

My config.yaml is
sensor:
# Getting weather conditions from the web for the GPS location defined above.
- platform: darksky
api_key: xxxx
name: “Outside”
monitored_conditions:
- temperature
- humidity

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whooo hooo figured one out all by myself!
It turns out that by updating Hassio, I solved the problem. Prior to the screen shot below, I was at V1.? Note that home assistant was already running at it’s latest version - see second screen shot. Perhaps I’m ignorant should I update both HomeAssistant and Hass.io separately?

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HassOS is the underlying operating system and is totally separate from Home Assistant. They get updated separately as well.

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Thanks- I understood that concept generally but not in working practice. This might be a reason that new users fight bugs… I’ve noticed a few other things that were not working as described in the help files suddenly corrected.

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It generally should make no difference. Home Assistant is agnostic about the underlying OS… The underlying OS could be anything (Raspbian, Debian, Ubuntu etc) But it’s a good idea to keep updated anyway.

I’m surprised you fixed the error by updating the OS to be honest… that would be rare… more like a coincidence…

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I certainly take your point and don’t debate it.

I should mention (in case this helps in any way) This HA install is about 1 week old - meaning that I was having so many problems that I re-downloaded HA and re-imaged the SD card. I manually entered everything into my config files (to learn and to avoid any chance of corrupting things) So my point here is that by updating HassOS my issues went away.

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what version of HA were you running prior to “updating”?

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HA has always been 0.86 in my troubleshooting of darksky.
Hass.io, which came bundled with HA was not at it’s latest, If I remember, perhaps 1.7.

To be clear, from here: https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/ I downloaded the “Raspberry Pi 3 model B and B+ 32bit” version which includes the old version of Hassio.

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Ok, I should have clarified better. What version of HA did you originally start with when you started home assistant?

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Somehow i corrupted my SD card while learning Lovelace. Last weekend, I completely started over and installed HA using the link above- so my comments are all based on a fresh install from 1 week ago. I did not restore from a backup and I manually re-created my config.yaml and ui-lovelace.yaml as my setup is pretty simple and recreating is helping me to understand everything better.

I did have HA running on this PI / SD card previously- to answer your question - though I would expect that re-imaging the card would have taken anything out from that state. I think I was 0.84 ish?