How to override and *disable* web_server

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My plug has the following configuration:

substitutions:
  device_name: "dehumidifier-plug"
  friendly_name: "Dehumidifier Plug"
packages:
  athom.smart-plug-v2: github://athom-tech/athom-configs/athom-smart-plug-v2.yaml
esphome:
  name: ${device_name}
  name_add_mac_suffix: false


wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password

The imported configuration enables web_server. However, I have been experiencing stability issues with these plugs and I would like to try disabling it. I am looking for some incantation which I can add to my configuration which will disable web_server in the expanded output I see when selecting 'Validate`.

I have already whispered the following into the void without result:

web_server: {}

and

web_server:
  port: null

The latter I tried because the imported configuration only defines port, but the expanded configuration contains more. I wondered if I could explicitly unset port and avoid the setting of anything else, but it had no effect at all.

I can obviously just fork the imported configuration, but I was hoping to avoid that. Any ideas?

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Maybe something with remove?

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Just copy whole yaml from that “imported” file to your yaml, remove “web server” and you’re done. And, of course, remove “packages…:” lines. I always do that way - i hate “imported” stuff, because i don’t know what’s going on and what i have configured… it becomes kinda “black mystery box” with unknown stuff inside…

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They did mention they didn’t want to do that…

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True, but if you can’t do that then this is simple and quick solution, correct?

Not all can be done …like i have a “common” file for all my esp’s with definitions that all esp’s must have, then i just include common file in my yaml. But, if i put “api” definitions there it won’t compile (reports an error). So i just simply put api in each of my api and voila.

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This looked promising, but afaict you can only !remove if you used !include, which I didn’t because it’s a remote repo.

The docs do say:

Since packages are incorporated using the !include system…

and they don’t exclude remote packages from that. I suspect this is either possible with some unintuitive or undocumented syntax, or nearly possible with some code tweaks.

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I’ve opened a feature request: Support for removing elements imported by a remote package · Issue #2530 · esphome/feature-requests · GitHub

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web_server: !remove

works fine in latest ESPHome. You can close the ticket or transform it into a request for better docs.

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