HA doesn't keep my tag info after I enter, save, and right it

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I am new to the home automation world. I do have some computer background. I tried setting up a RBpi 4 with home assistant a couple or 3 years ago with limited luck. I had been watching some YouTube videos and saw one about running home assistant.
WOW! It looked easy!
So I broke out my raspberry pi, downloaded a new home assistant image, and was off to the races down the rabbit hole.
Everything has been going great. Even been playing with some Yaml files.

I have now run into a few problems which I will only address NFC tags in this topic.
I have created them. But after I do, I have noticed that all of the tag information is gone out of the tags that I created in home assistant in the list of tags. I noticed this when I tried creating another tag. I looked in automations.yaml and the information is in there.
I don’t like working on a phone. So, I create the automations on my computer and then write them to a tag on my phone. Just wondering why am losing the information and set up of the tag in home assistant.

Thanks for any help,
Dennis

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A little confused by your post, but are you saying after you create a tag it then isn’t showing up in your list of tags?

What tag info are you referring to? The only info you enter is a name.

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Have a similar issue it appears with tags.

I create an automation and click save and “Rename box” appears. I click save and go back into the tag and nothing is saved it all empty.

Have tried on PC and mobile app. Both have the same issue.
Running:

  • Core 2024.4.3
  • Supervisor 2024.04.0
  • Operating System 12.2
  • Frontend 20240404.2

Create flow:

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Click Save and asked to rename:
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Click rename and looks like its save:

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However exit and go back in and nothing shows…

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Same issue here: tag-info not available after saving and reopening tag. The tag is however working as programmed.

  • Core 2024.4.3
  • Supervisor 2024.04.0
  • Operating System 12.2
  • Frontend 20240404.2

After saving new tag:

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After reopening that tag:

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5

When you go into the automations settings, and click on the name you renamed it to, what do you see?

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There it is available as expected.
Thanks!
However it still seems like a bug to me … ?

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Why? Where else would you expect to find an automation saved?

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If I ‘programmed’ and I want to change that tag, then - when I click the tag - I would expect to see what is already programmed and to be able to adjust it.
If I open it now, it is empty. When I then add a new automation and save it, it is saved in the automations as en new automation:

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I think now that the ‘Tags’ menu item is only meant for creating tags. But then: why
display the already created tags? Confusing to me, but now I think I’ll manage optimizing my tag-automations.

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You didn’t program the tag, you programmed what home assistant does when you scan the tag. It belongs with all the other home assistant automations go.

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Yes, that is how I understood it. Let me rephrase: “I think now that the ‘Tags’ menu item is only meant for creating tags managing the connection between tag and automation.”
Still: if I open a tag in the ‘Tags’ menu in HA, I would expect to see what HA does after scanning. In other words: I would expect to see the automation that is already configured and not a new automation.
With current functionality it is possible to connect multiple automations to one tag, but I don’t see the point in that: you could have one automation per tag with multiple actions, so imo no need for more than one automation per tag.

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I am seeing what you mean, after setting one up as a test.

Normal integrations have links to their associated automations, eg

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It would be good to have that for tags.