Hi everyone,
I’ve been playing with Home Assistant for a while.
Most of the things I’m interested in doing require several integrations to perform some computations: template
, statistics
, filter
, history_stats
.
All of the above seem to have no associated helper, meaning I have to manually edit my configuration.yaml
with all that entails in terms of risks of corruption.
Most importantly, it looks like everytime I make a change I have to perform a complete “Restart Home Assistant” – the “Quick Reload” available from the UI does not seem to do me any good.
This sounds like a bit of an overkill to me.
Am I missing something? Is there any other way?
The current risk of “corruption” is very low… You can check the configuration with a button click and it’s checked automatically when you click “Restart”.
All of the integrations you mentioned can be reloaded individually in the YAML menu of the Developer Tools. These may or may not work depending on how you have set up merging yaml files and whether the files being edited are new or existing. That is just one of the trade-offs for using advanced configuration options.
Can you elaborate? Does clicking the associated reload option (Template, etc.) not actually bring in the changes?
I’ve periodically found that to be the case, but the vast majority of the time it works fine and instantly and keeps me from having to do a full restart.