Edit configuration.yaml with Hass.io CLI

Piggyback · February 20, 2019, 8:16am

Googling this shows there are helpful links out there. For example:
https://www.simplified.guide/ssh/copy-file

SmartHomeGuy · February 20, 2019, 10:54pm

I’m ssh’d into Hassio, thanks!

nickrout · February 20, 2019, 11:16pm

Then the file (and all your config files) are in the

/config

directory.

SmartHomeGuy · February 21, 2019, 12:12am

Hi, thanks for the reply! I tried that and it wasn’t working. I’ve decided to start over since I was already planning to upgrade to a bigger SD card. The first thing I’m going to do this time is installing samba and the ssh add-on. Thanks!

nickrout · February 21, 2019, 2:13am

I thought you said you had the ssh addon installed this time (see you last response to me).

SmartHomeGuy · February 21, 2019, 2:31am

I used the debugging feature. Thanks!

CircuitSetup · October 15, 2019, 5:06pm

I just wanted to put this here for those that run into the same problem. I mistakenly had a tab in my configuration.yaml and restarted without checking first. I also didn’t have access to SSH (I tried installing from CLI, but couldn’t get the configuration edited correctly).

So, here’s what I did:

login to get out of hassio cli and into bash
docker ps to get a list of containers
note the first 3 characters or so of the container for homeassistant - for me it was 51a
docker exec -it 51a /bin/bash
ls to make sure configuration.yaml is there
vi configuration.yaml to edit the file
edit your mistake
esc + :wq to save and exit
exit then login to get back to hassio CLI
homeassistant check to make sure the conf is right this time
homeassistant restart

Tom_Hopkins · October 20, 2019, 5:39pm

Thank you so much John! That worked perfect.

I’m new to HA and didn’t realise a simple error in my config file could mess it all up to the point i had no web interface.

m90att · November 22, 2019, 3:21pm

Hi,

I’m struggling to access the host system. This is what I see:

login as: root
Authenticating with public key "xxxxxxxxxxxx"

  _    _                 _
 | |  | |               (_)
 | |__| | __ _ ___ ___   _  ___
 |  __  |/ _` / __/ __| | |/ _ \
 | |  | | (_| \__ \__ \_| | (_) |
 |_|  |_|\__,_|___/___(_)_|\___/



Our Cli:
$ hassio help

core-ssh:~#

I’ve tried typing login but any password and user I try is rejected. Can anyone help please?

Thanks,

Matt

nickrout · November 23, 2019, 3:16am

You are already logged in.

rfontijn · November 28, 2019, 7:11pm

Thanks! This was very helpfull while fixing my confguration without ssh access.

Ciwyn · December 1, 2019, 5:49pm

These directions definitely saved me from having to start again from scratch!

Nice write up and thanks for posting it!

exeljb · December 13, 2019, 10:26pm

This worked perfectly for me to get my Home Assistant instance working again! Thank you for the steps!

sebdoan · January 24, 2020, 9:39pm

Thanks so much for sharing this!!!

My home assistant just died after a windows update (I run HASSIO via virtualbox). Somehow the configuration.yaml file was completely corrupted and so wouldn’t boot. This allowed me to delete the yaml file and replace it with a backup i keep.

LIFE SAVER!!!

rusty_away · April 5, 2020, 4:00pm

Thank you for this. You are a life saver. I had a very worrisome couple of hours before I found this post and now I have my front-end back again! Definitely bookmarking this one.

CircuitSetup · April 5, 2020, 7:23pm

No problem everyone! Glad I could help!

Faveon · June 3, 2020, 11:01pm

Hello there.
I installed Home Assistant on my Asustor Nas using Docker-ce. I can see the configuration.yaml file in the Home Assistant folder in the Docker folder in Nas.
But when I open the Home assistant application and write config / configuratin.yaml in the address line, the script does not open.
How can I open this in the application?

Thank you for your help.

francisp · June 4, 2020, 4:38am

You can’t edit configuration.yaml by going to http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8123/config/configuration.yaml

You have to check where you mapped /config when creating the docker container.

Faveon · June 4, 2020, 12:05pm

Thank you very much for your reply.

But I couldn’t find how to open the file. With the pictures I show you the location of the file in the NAS.

Thank you in advance for your help.

francisp · June 4, 2020, 12:43pm

You just have Home Assistant container. You can’t open it in the application.

Just use Windows Explorer to navigate to path (I guess \192.168.1.24\docker\homeassistant\config) and use a texteditor (notepad, but better notepad++ or vscode) to edit configuration.yaml.