Hi. New to HASS and just wanting to clear up a couple of nagging questions.
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GUI vs YAML. This question comes from configuring Z-Wave for the first time. The doco says to configure either by adding lines to configuration.yaml or add integration in the GUI. I’d assumed that the result either way would be the same, i.e. that the appropriate lines are added to configuration.yaml. I found this was not the case. Adding via GUI makes no change to configuration.yaml. I could not find any info about where these changes are actually saved when done via the GUI and this became an issue when I somehow wrecked my z-wave config and needed to remove/reinstall it. I could find no way to do this in the GUI, and there was nothing to remove from configuration.yaml.
So this raises the question… are GUI configs vs yaml configs all separate in this way? i.e. you cannot tell by looking at the yaml files what integrations are actually installed? This begs follow-up questions… which is better practise… GUI or yaml? Is it OK to mix them in the same implementation? Why does GUI use a separate config store? Is there any way to view/edit config done in the GUI at file level? -
I installed OZWCP in a docker container on my Synology NAS. (HASS is also running this way) and with some messing around was able to get it to read the config for my Aeotec Multisensor6. The docker run command for OZWCP required some attributes for XML config files but I could find no documentation as to what these attributes actually do. Are changes made in OZWCP saved directly to the device, or does it write to an XML file? What are the XML files used for, i.e. when are they read/written to and why?
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still confused about HASSIO From searching these forums I read that it is not supported on Synology NAS, but don’t know why. My understanding of HASSIO is that it is an extension to HASS to support GUI management of add-ins. I’d like a simple answer (if there is one) to …
a) Can I run it on Synology NAS (Docker based) or not?
b) what can I do with HASSIO that I can’t do without it? i.e. do I really need it?
c) Is there a way to install HASSIO addins to HASS without HASSIO?
Thanks!