This is a real newbie question. All over the doco, forums, and web are discussions on editing the configuration.yaml file and other .yaml files to do specific things.
I am running a HA OS, with the latest updates (Dec 21), and have added a good number of integrations throught the UI. I wanted to see what these looked like in the .yaml files. On HAOS the yaml files are supposed to be in the /config directory (and they are when I look using the Terminal addon), but the configuration.yaml file never changes, and does not contain anything like what the documentation regularly suggests it should.
After doing some looking around, I did find the “normal” content of the .yaml files, but it is in the /config/.storage/ directory in a series of files called core.config, core.config_entries etc. Does this just mean the documentation is out of date, or is there something going on I dont understand?
For a quick example, here is the entire content of configuration.yaml in the /config directory:
The typical configuration.yaml values for say my Sonoff Zigbee Stick are in the core.config_entries file:
Mostly, what I am looking to do is add some custom components (integrations), and I need to be clear where to put the files so that HA can find them and allow me to install the integration. But if I cant find the basic .yaml files, I dont think I will have much luck with custom components (and yes, I did try, and no joy yet).
Using the Terminal addon, I created the folder custom_components in the /config directory, and placed a custom component there (GitHub - CharlesGillanders/homeassistant-alphaESS: Monitor your energy generation, storage, and usage data using an unofficial API from Alpha ESS), and restarted HA and then the host, with no joy.
Can anyone point out where to look to find out how to do this using the current toolset (HA OS), or point out what I am doing wrong?
Apologies for the newbie questions…