This morning I found out the hard way that I, due to some copy paste changes, accidentally had a double sensor: entry in my configuration.yaml file. The effect of this was that all sensors under the first sensor: entry were completely ignored. Only the sensors under the second sensor: entry were st…

The configuration check is to see if something hinders HA from starting up. A double entry does not, so it will pass the check, but during boot there should be a warning in your logs about the double entry.

Sanity check for double entries in configuration.yaml

Feature Requests

EdwardTFN (Edward Firmo) February 4, 2023, 6:45pm 4

You forgot to vote in your own feature request.

Try using the Visual Studio Code for editing your yaml files. The editor is quite good on highlighting this kind of issue.