I have followed the documentation for the MQTT integration and some youtube videos, but I cant get the entity to show up for use on the dashboard or in the development tools. Here is how I have the YAML configured.
What file is that definition in? The “mqtt:” line should be in “configuration.yaml”. You can then either follow it with the rest of the definition, or put it in a separate file and “!include” it in - your config may already be set up this way, expecting the definition to be in “mqtt.yaml”.
Then you need to reload either with “Developer Tools > YAML > Manually configured MQTT entities” or a restart. Then you should see it in dev tools.
I wen to the overview section and clicked the raw configuration editor.
if this isn’t where I’m supposed to enter this, how can I get to the configuration.yaml file from the HA server?
Install the file editor add-on (if you have HA OS)
but when verifying the YAML i get this warning message:
Still no entities I can use, and unsure what the warning messages refer to.
Please post code as text, not as picture
mqtt:
- switch
- name: xxx
unique_id: xxx
command_topic: xxx
state_topic
- name: yyyy
Thanks guys. It was the weird spacing with with yaml stuff. it works now