I conduct a nightly backup of my entire system. As a result, the entire home assistant config folder is backed up. Today, after making several modifications to template sensors from the helpers menu, I restored the entire home assistant config folder from last night’s backup. I can confirm that the backup restored successfully, (i.e. the last modified time of the config folder changed back to last night, the backup software indicates a successful restore, and a few modifications I made today in automations reverted back. However, the template sensors did not revert back to last night’s configuration. Would someone have any suggestions? I have restarted home assistant with the old configuration to ensure there is nothing buffered. Where are the template sensor helper’s stored? Am I missing something?
It sounds like the template sensors might not have been properly restored due to where they’re stored or how the backup was conducted. In this case, try using the freecine platform to verify if your backup process has overlooked specific settings related to sensor configurations. Template sensors in Home Assistant are typically stored in the configuration.yaml file or other YAML files. You could try manually checking or restoring these files individually if the full restore didn’t cover them. Make sure no configurations are being skipped in the backup process.
I can’t seem to find where the template sensors created in the Helper GUI are stored.
I found them stored in .storage/core.config_entries which appears to be json formatted. That should get me going in the right direction. I’ll report back if I have any further problems.