Multiple variable holding files

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Hey there,

I’m using the secrets.yaml file quite extensively, not only for sensitive data, but for storing mqtt topics etc. as well. This comes with the price of a very long secrets.yaml document.

Is there a possibility to have a plethora of these files and just address them from within another yaml file?

e.g instead of using the !secret command use !filename.yaml

- platform: mqtt
  name: "All ceiling lights"
  command_topic: !secret RC321_command
  # how it's working right now:
  payload_on: !secret RC321_all_on
  # how it could be working:
  payload_on: !RC321MHz.yaml RC321_all_off

My thinking behind this is, that I’ve a lot of small “projects” that I want to setup as packages. These are all standalone and don’t really interact with anything else (e.g. plant watering system). For easy maintenance and deployability I would like to have a kind of “database” like the secrets.yaml file which I can simply ship with the package.

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Can you use include statements in the secrets.yaml? I haven’t tried, so HA might not decode them before scanning the file, but if it does, I think you could separate the contents into different package files.