I am new and just starting with Home Assistant. I am trying to start right off the bat with Lovelace for my UI. Based on the YouTubes and documentation I believe I should be able to make a change in the ui-lovelace.yaml file and then click the 3 dots in the top right of Home Assistant and click “Refresh” and see my changes - no need to restart HA…
But I don’t see Refresh in the menu drop down - only Unused Entries, Configure UI and Help. I’m on version 0.84.6 - I assume I have done something wrong - or it’s in a different location now? Let me know if I missed a step. I tried both the “Lovelace Migration” option in the add-ons and when that didn’t work - restored and then tired just the “create ui-lovelace.yaml” file from a Youtube - neither have the “Refresh” option…
Thanks for the help - and sorry if I missed something simple.
The “refresh” button went away with version 0.84. Lovelace is still in beta so big changes like this can occur each version. If you’re editing the frontend from the frontend the changes should be in realtime. If you’re editing a file, a refresh of your browser window should be enough to bring in new changes.
The refresh button so far as I know didn’t go away in 0.84 - it is still there is you use Lovelace in YAML mode. The fact there is no button means you are in storage mode (or maybe autogenerated perhaps)
storage mode doesn’t need a refresh button as it auto refreshes when you save.
Well I figured it out - for me anyway. I could not figure out how to use it with auto refresh - so I went back to the documentation and with the hint DavidFW1960 about YAML mode saw how to add that to my configuration.yaml file - I added the
lovelace:
mode: yaml
Restarted HA - and there we go! I have the Refresh option and my main page now looks like what I have in the ui-lovelace.yaml file…so now at least I can continue on…