So I’m just starting to evaluate Home Assistant (currently openHAB power user). I like that you can seperate the passwords into a secrets.yaml file. However it does not seem to work for addons, only in configuration.yaml. I have an entry in my \\192.168.40.32\config\secrets.yaml saying samba_pas…

I’ve encountered this with several add-ons when setting a friends Home Assistant. It’s not Home Assistant that needs to be restarted, it’s the add-on. It’s like the copy of secrets.yaml that it has access to, is cached. Write anything in for now as the username and password just so you can start th…

Wow, that was a fast solution, thank you! Indeed I had to first restart the addon ( http://pi-homeassistant:8123/hassio/addon/core_samba/info > Restart) and then restart it again after putting in !secret … in the configuration.

Not sure what has changed, none of the add-ons previously exhibited this weird behaviour in the past, it’s a recent change. Glad to have helped you sort it though.

[image] eikowagenknecht: !secret samba_password Good the HA community is out there - I finally also figured how this works. Thank you!

Hello, You can also consider this solution to edit the file in YAML directly: [image] Problem re-adding MariaDB (!secrets not working) Configuration I think I solved it myself. For one I deleted the entry in config/.storage/core.device_registry. There still was a MariaDB…

Hi guys, I Know i am a little bit late but maybe someone get this as a result of search … You can use the way explained above: set something as user & pass start addon edit user & pass to !secret samba_user & !secret samba_pass But you also just can type it in correctly dont mind yaml or fronte…

How to use secrets.yaml in addons

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thomine (Thomas) January 15, 2023, 9:02am 6

Hello,
You can also consider this solution to edit the file in YAML directly: