Edit configuration.yaml from Home assistant CLI?

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Hi all.

Struggling with what should be a simple issue to fix. My home assistant web gui is not running. Accessed my Home assisstant CLI directly through console and I’ve run ‘core check’ which confirms there’s a duplicate entry in my ‘configuration.yaml’ file.

I normally access my .yaml files through samba share, ssh terminal, or file editor but these services aren’t set to start automatically so as far as I can tell, its not an option since I cant access web gui to initialize.

So my question is: how else can I access my configuration.yaml file so I can edit and resolve! Is there a way I can access and edit the file directly through HA CLI? Through the host system itself?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Disregard. For whatever reason, after a few hours, I was able to access HA from web gui again and was able to access my config.yaml through file editor to fix.

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Hi
Did anyone figure out how to edit configuration.yaml from HA CLI. I have an error and I dont have access to web UI to fix it.

Thank you!!

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cd /config
nano configuration.yaml

Or if you prefer old-school:

cd /config
vi configuration.yaml
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Figured this out.

From the ‘HA’ Prompt…

type ‘login’
then cd /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant

type ‘ls’
you’ll see ‘configuration.yaml’ is in this directory

vi configuration.yaml to edit

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For basics VI editor commands

i — Switch to Insert mode.
Esc — Switch to Command mode.
:w — Save and continue editing.
:wq or ZZ — Save and quit/exit vi.
:q! — Quit vi and do not save changes.

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