External zone file

Configuration
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okay first post here. I have tried all the splitting up config zone information I could find on this site and I can’t seem o figure out if I have done it right or not.
My config yams has the following

zone: !include_dir_list zones

then I have a folder called zones inside my .homeassistant folder.
insider here I have a bunch of yams files

one example is as follows (no spaces all just left justified)

name: Bri Work
latitude: -xxx
longitude: xxx
radius: 100
icon: mdi:work

what I figured was if I went to developers tools and looked at states it would show me a zone.Bri_Work. But I can’t see any other zones except zone.home

in writing this I have decided to not split (to trial if I can get them working normally. so I changed my config to this to see if they would show up

Zone 2:
  name: Bri Work
  latitude: -xxx
  longitude: xxx
  radius: 100
  icon: mdi:work
Zone 3:
  name: CBR Work
  latitude: -xxx
  longitude: xxx
  radius: 100
  icon: mdi:city

so first mistake I made was capital Z.
changed that to zone and that has now made them show up where I thought they would (dev tools state). So that means my include directory thing 'aint doing what she suppose to. All I can think so far is possibly spacing. if I had a single include file I would expect the file to need a double space to start as the code is going zone:putsomethinghere. I think maybe I need to use include_dir_merge_list so it gets everything and puts them into a list but then how do I increment “zone” for example zone 2, zone 3 etc.

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thanks mate. I tried everything in this thread and couldn’t get it to work.

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Try and put all the zones in one file.
zone: !include zones.yaml

And leave a line return after each zone entry.

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okay cool thanks @cameron. turns out it was all down to spacing and returns after the zones. I am using text wrangler for coding and un hid everything so I could see spacing and returns. I had two spaces and your code had three spaces in places, plus the returns. so It is working now with the !include file.

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Yes. Been there. LOL

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