Noob trying to configure groups and views, Please help!

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Hi everyone,

I know lots of people ask about setting up the UI but I can not for the life of me see my mistake. This is my groups.yaml file.

default_view:
  name: Home
  view: yes
  entities:
    - camera.front_door

kitchen_view:
  name: Kitchen
  view: yes
  entities:
    - climate.kitchen
    - light.kitchen
    - media_player.kitchen
    - media_player.kitchen_2
    - media_player.kitchen_3
    - remote.kitchen
    - sensor.kitchen_heating
    - sensor.kitchen_humidity
    - sensor.kitchen_link
    - sensor.kitchen_overlay
    - sensor.kitchen_power
    - sensor.kitchen_tado_mode
    - sensor.kitchen_temperature

I don’t get any errors I just don’t get any tabs either. For completeness this is my configuration.yaml file I’ve replaced personal info with x’s;

homeassistant:
  # Name of the location where Home Assistant is running
  name: Home
  # Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets
  latitude: xx.xxxx
  longitude: xx.xxx
  # Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)
  elevation: 0
  # metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial
  unit_system: metric
  # Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
  time_zone: Europe/London
  # Customization file
  customize: !include customize.yaml

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Show the introduction message on startup.
introduction: false

# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
# http:
#   base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123

# Discover some devices automatically
discovery:

# Sensors
sensor:
  # Weather prediction
  - platform: yr
  - platform: ring
#  - platform: tado

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml

# Ring
ring:
  username: !secret Ring_Username
  password: !secret Ring_Password

camera:
  - platform: ring

binary_sensor:
  - platform: ring
  
#Tado
tado:
  username: !secret Tado_Username
  password: !secret Tado_Password

device_tracker:
- platform: tado
  username: !secret Tado_Username
  password: !secret Tado_Password
  home_id: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2

Which version of Homeassistant are you on?
A little while ago the default UI was changed from the legacy one to Lovelace, so if your lovelace.yaml is empty you won’t see anything.

3

I have the latest version, I only installed it yesterday.

There is no lovelace.yaml file in my config folder I assume I just need to make one. What do I need to enter into that file?

Thanks

4

Turns out my file file is fine I needed to go to the states UI tab and I can see everything in the groups.yaml file.

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5

I also have the same troubles.

It changed to “Lovelace YAML mode” from the hint of lovelace.yaml, but it is not displayed yet.

I wrote to configuration.yaml as follows.
lovelace:
mode: yaml

Group will be displayed when you restart Home Assistant in this state (without ui-lovelace.yaml).

However, when ui-lovelace.yaml is created, ui-lovelace.yaml is prioritized and Group is not displayed.

Do I need to write something to ui-lovelace.yaml?

6

@yuuya45 @neocleous You both should check out how to add items to your user interface. The group views are outdated information related to the old interface.

Check out that page and watch the video. It will show you how to configure your UI with tabs and views without needing yaml mode.

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