Global vars from docs not working

Third party integrations AppDaemon
1

my_global_var = conf.config[“AppDaemon”][“global_var”]
NameError: name ‘conf’ is not defined

appdaemon.yaml:

log:
logfile: STDOUT
errorfile: STDERR
appdaemon:
threads: 10
app_dir: /config/appdaemon/apps
plugins:
HASS:
type: hass
ha_url: http://hassio/homeassistant
token: 88cf6c9bd49c7204dc19b0b7025951a52f6951a8bfb6242c960715f9b73f1dbc
global_var: null
hadashboard:
dash_url: http://127.0.0.1:5050
dash_dir: /config/appdaemon/dashboards

2

You need to populate the variable with the contents using https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/HASS_API_REFERENCE.html?highlight=config#get-hass-config

3

what about this one from the example mode.py app:

File “/config/appdaemon/apps/modes.py”, line 35, in initialize
time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(appdaemon.conf.now)
AttributeError: module ‘appdaemon’ has no attribute ‘conf’

4

please show yaml and logs and code as codeblocks, so its better readable.
the attributeerror is probably because there is an error in the example after a change from the appdaemon programm.

you probably can change the line to

time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(self,datetime())

or

time = datetime.datetime.now()

the last one expects that the timezone from the system is the same as the timezone from appdaemon.

5

That’s what I ended up doing. ty. I’ll format next time.

6

self.time() gives the appdaemon time, which adjusts correctly as you use the time travel tool.