"default_config:" & automation integration

yashijoe · February 8, 2021, 10:23am

“default_config:” is in my configuration.yaml file
According to Default Config that should be enough for automations

But that’s not true. Anyway I need to add the following line
automation: !include automations.yaml

Am I doing something wrong?
Thank you

Burningstone · February 8, 2021, 10:31am

This libe is only needed if you want to use automations from the UI or if you want to split automations in a separate file.

You could also have an automation directly in configuration.yaml, automation are a built-in integration, you don’t need to install anything or add some integration to use it.

anon43302295 · February 8, 2021, 12:32pm

You only need to ‘add’ that if you deleted it in the first place. A brand new installation of homeassistant already has that line in configuration.yaml as standard. The standard being…

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

As per…

github.com

home-assistant/core/blob/2744d64a3ed8c2c1337fd6d4cca87cb903f3a8f5/homeassistant/config.py

"""Module to help with parsing and generating configuration files."""
from collections import OrderedDict
from distutils.version import LooseVersion  # pylint: disable=import-error
import logging
import os
import re
import shutil
from types import ModuleType
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, Sequence, Set, Tuple, Union

import voluptuous as vol
from voluptuous.humanize import humanize_error

from homeassistant import auth
from homeassistant.auth import (
    mfa_modules as auth_mfa_modules,
    providers as auth_providers,
)
from homeassistant.const import (
    ATTR_ASSUMED_STATE,

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yashijoe · February 8, 2021, 8:01pm

Thanks for the clarification.
My aim is to have a configuration.yaml as much clean as possible.
So I thought that default_config let me avoid using automation line. The same as I can avoid e.g. input_bolean line.

Eric_Lee · February 23, 2022, 9:30am

May I ask, I have 2 entries in my configuration.yaml

default_config:
config:

May I know do I need both of them? Can I remove “config:”?

yashijoe · February 23, 2022, 9:14pm

You can remove “config:” as it is already included inside “default_config:”