I have a very up to date version of HAOS that I run on a mini PC:
- Installation method Home Assistant OS
- Core 2025.12.3
- Supervisor 2025.12.3
- Operating System 16.3
- Frontend 20251203.2
I recently had to rebuild the home assistant installation. Started from reinstalling HAOS. I restored from backup and it all seemed to work.
But when I was creating a new automation I saw a few issues. I am not sure if related to the restore or due to some upgrade, before or after the rebuild.
This is what I see:
1- When I try to create a new automation using the UI, just to send a default notification when an entity state changes, the UI discards it and goes back to the initial screen.
2- I also do not see any of the automations I had previously created. I see the automations.yaml file. I also have the include in the configuration.yaml:
automation: !include automations.yaml
3- when I try to create another automation that sends a different type of notification, it goes a bit further. In this case, when I try to save the automation, I get the attached error message…
After I tried these, I also see some error messages in the home assistant logs:
2025-12-22 18:18:59.704 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved (None)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/config/automation.py”, line 28, in hook
await hass.services.async_call(
AUTOMATION_DOMAIN, SERVICE_RELOAD, {CONF_ID: config_key}
)
File “/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py”, line 2768, in async_call
raise ServiceNotFound(domain, service) from None
homeassistant.exceptions.ServiceNotFound: Action automation.reload not found
Any ideas of how I could get Home assistant to be able to load the automations? Having just done a rebuild, I was hoping if anything, it would clear warning messages, etc I had before the rebuild…