Edit Yaml - Raspberry Pi All-In-One Installer

[maviso5 (Dan)]

Hi All,

I’ve just installed HASS using the Raspberry Pi All-In-One Installer, however struggling to edit the YAML file (which lives in (home/hass/.homeassistant) I believe this to be permissions however unsure how where/what level to change.

I am logging in as Pi when using either ssh or cyberduck (mac user)

Any help much appreciated.

[gustafh (Gustaf hagel)]

Are you using sudo? What errors do you get?

[aimc (Andrew Cockburn)]

the YAML files will be owned by the hass user, you should be able to do:

$ sudo su - hass

To switch to that user then you should have the correct permissions to edit the file.

[maviso5 (Dan)]

Do you have to edit in terminal/using SSH, i was hoping to download the file make changes and reupload

[Dropbear (Ian)]

you can do it that way if you want to… just make sure the files are uploaded by the owner of the hass installation …

you could use something like winscp

[maviso5 (Dan)]

How do I find the hass user/password?

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

I find it easiest to set up a Samba share to my HA folder. That way, I can edit directly in my text editor. Good tutorial here:

How To Set Up SAMBA File Sharing On A Raspberry Pi

Also, some tips for using Notepad++ that I figured out through trial and (lot’s of) error:

Tips for editing YAML with Notepad++

A few things that helped make it easier for me to edit YAML with Notepad++: Make N++ display whitespace - under View >> Show Symbol, turn on “Show White Space and TAB” Make N++ use spaces instead of tabs - tabs are going to break YAML parsing. But you probably don’t want to turn off the tab character globally. N++ lets you make it so that when you hit TAB, it’ll insert the number of spaces you choose. Go to Settings >> Preferences and choose Tab Settings. Scroll down in the “Tab Settings” …

[ih8gates (Scott Reston)]

If you’re logged in as “pi” - the default user (pass: raspberry), you can switch users with:

sudo su -s /bin/bash hass