Problem with packages

Configuration
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I have installed Home Assistant with Home Assistant OS on raspberry, now I’m trying to set up a package, so I created the packages folder inside the homeassistant folder and add it to configuration.yaml, but when I try to restart the server I always have this error

Logger: homeassistant.setup
Source: setup.py:221
First occurred: 21:42:11 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 21:42:11

Setup failed for ‘packages’: Integration not found.

here my configration.yaml


# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Load frontend themes from the themes folder
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

#########################################
http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
  
hacs:
  token: myToken
  
api:


alexa:
  smart_home:
    filter:
      exclude_domains:
        - alarm_control_panel
        - alert
        - automation
        - binary_sensor
        - button
        - camera
        # scuri/tapparelle
        - cover
        - device_tracker
        - fan
        - group
        - humidifier
        - input_boolean
        - input_button
        - input_datetime
        - input_number
        - input_select
        - lock
        - media_player
        - number
        - person
        - remote
        - scene
        - script
        - select
        - sensor
        - siren
        - switch
        - timer
        - weather
        - zone 
      #include_entities:
        #includere progressivamente, in questa sezione, le entità da esporre ad Alexa.
      include_domains:
        - light
        - vacuum
        - climate
        
        
sonoff:
  username: myUser
  password: myPassword
  force_update: [temperature, power]
  scan_interval: '00:00:30'  # (optional) default 5 minutes
  sensors: [temperature, humidity, power, current, voltage]
  mode: local
  
# Load packages
packages: !include_dir_named packages

someone can help me to include packages?

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Doing packages is almost as much an art as it is a science. I have a pretty complex, deeply nested package I use on mine and prefer it monumentally over an endless Configuration.yaml file.

You need to test and play with how you set them up. For example:

My configuration.yaml (truncated for demonstration):

homeassistant:
  customize: !include customize.yaml
  packages: !include_dir_named integrations

Then in /config/integrations I break out each integration into a folder and each folder has a file (include_dir_named gets each file there):

automations.yaml

automation: !include ../automations.yaml

binary_sensors.yaml

binary_sensor: !include_dir_list ../entities/binary_sensors

And I keep going. As a result I know precisely where my various setups are and I don’t have to dig. Notice on use include_dir_list on the sensors, this says get all the files under /config/entities/binary_sensors and merge each file content into a list, the type of thing the “binary_sensors:” configuration is looking for if it were in configuration.yaml by itself.

I say you need to play around because you won’t know, as a beginner, which needs to be a list or which needs to be treated differently. So you do your configs and packages and then you go to Developer Tools → YAML and “Check Configuration” and it will tell you if you tried to include a list when only a string was needed (or whatever).

You don’t have to do it all at once, do just one small piece at a time, say binary_sensors to start, leave the rest in configuration.yaml until you start to get a feel for it. It can be quite daunting at first but once you start to get the hang of it then it becomes second nature.

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as noted above (but not explicitly stated) the “packages:” line needs to be put under the “homeassistant:” key (I put it at the top just for ease of demonstration - it can go anywhere as long as the indentation is maintained):

# Load packages
homeassistant:
  packages: !include_dir_named packages


# Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.
default_config:

# Load frontend themes from the themes folder
frontend:
  themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

#########################################
http:
  ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
  ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
  
hacs:
  token: myToken
  
api:


alexa:
  smart_home:
    filter:
      exclude_domains:
        - alarm_control_panel
        - alert
        - automation
        - binary_sensor
        - button
        - camera
        # scuri/tapparelle
        - cover
        - device_tracker
        - fan
        - group
        - humidifier
        - input_boolean
        - input_button
        - input_datetime
        - input_number
        - input_select
        - lock
        - media_player
        - number
        - person
        - remote
        - scene
        - script
        - select
        - sensor
        - siren
        - switch
        - timer
        - weather
        - zone 
      #include_entities:
        #includere progressivamente, in questa sezione, le entità da esporre ad Alexa.
      include_domains:
        - light
        - vacuum
        - climate
        
        
sonoff:
  username: myUser
  password: myPassword
  force_update: [temperature, power]
  scan_interval: '00:00:30'  # (optional) default 5 minutes
  sensors: [temperature, humidity, power, current, voltage]
  mode: local

but I’m not sure how it works using the “default_config:” entry since I don’t use it

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