Hi everybody,
I have already read splitting up the configuration, but that did not help me with this issue.
When I am in the webGUI and click customize overview
(or similar?? My GUI is in German, so English might be different from what I guess it’d be translated to), then raw configuration editor
, I get an this content that I can manually edit
title: Home
views:
- badges: []
cards:
- entity: weather.home
type: weather-forecast
- hold_action:
action: none
image: >-
https://www.yr.no...etc...
tap_action:
action: none
type: picture
panel: false
path: default_view
theme: default
title: Home
- badges: []
cards:
- entities:
- entity: sensor.az_rechner_watt
- entity: sensor.az_rechner_voltage
- entity: sensor.az_rechner_heute
- entity: sensor.az_rechner_gestern
- entity: sensor.az_rechner_total
show_header_toggle: false
title: Rechner
type: entities
- entities:
- entity: sensor.sz_klimaanlage_watt
- entity: sensor.sz_klimaanlage_voltage
- entity: sensor.sz_klimaanlage_heute
- entity: sensor.sz_klimaanlage_gestern
- entity: sensor.sz_klimaanlage_total
show_header_toggle: false
title: Klimaanlage
icon: 'mdi:flash'
show_header_toggle: false
title: Stromverbrauch
- badges: []
cards:
- type: markdown
content: ' Messwerte **Erdgeschoss**'
title: Unten
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.arbeitszimmer_temperatur
- entity: sensor.arbeitszimmer_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.arbeitszimmer_druck
title: Arbeitszimmer
show_header_toggle: false
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.bad_unten_temperatur
- entity: sensor.bad_unten_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.bad_unten_druck
title: Bad unten
show_header_toggle: false
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.flur_temperatur
- entity: sensor.flur_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.flur_druck
title: Flur
show_header_toggle: false
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.kuche_temperatur
- entity: sensor.kuche_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.kuche_druck
title: Küche
show_header_toggle: false
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.wohnzimmer_temperatur
- entity: sensor.wohnzimmer_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.wohnzimmer_druck
title: Wohnzimmer
show_header_toggle: false
- type: markdown
content: ' Messwerte **erster Stock**'
title: Oben
- type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.schlafzimmer_temperatur
- entity: sensor.schlafzimmer_luftfeuchtigkeit
- entity: sensor.schlafzimmer_druck
show_header_toggle: false
title: Schlafzimmer
icon: 'mdi:thermostat'
I deleted multiple lines from this because they just contained repeated values (each temperature sensor etc.), but you get the point from this.
Can I copy and paste this to a file that I edit, rather than “having to” do this over the GUI? This would be very helpful for two reasons:
-
I test all my new configurations on a local dockerized instance of home assistant; once things work the way I want them to, I
scp
them over to my “actual” home assistant host. When I do this and reload, changes in the backend will be done (new sensors, switches, automations etc. exist), but I have to manually edit the frontend because it does not look like my testing environment. -
as you can see in my example code above, many of these cards are pretty much following a pattern that would be much easier to edit in
vim
by yanking, pasting, and then doing search and replace compared to manually doing this in the raw configuration editor (I know, I could just copy it all, paste into vim, edit there, copy again, and paste back into raw configuration editor… but that still seems kinda impractical)
I have already looked through different peoples’ configuration files which were linked with the examples, but those are often very customized and people have different approaches of including their files. My (first user!) attempt is to keep the config as small as possible and always either !include
or !include_dir_merge_list
my yaml files depending on their content. Example
configuration.yaml
|- > sensor/
| - > 433.yaml (RF codes input)
| - > sonarr.yaml (sonarr)
| - > measurements.yaml (all rooms temperature, humidity, pressure)
| - > strom/ (power consumption, one file per device)
| - > office_pc.yaml
| - > kitchen_dishwasher.yaml
Should/could I just !include my_gui.yaml
and source it in configuration.yaml
? Or would it be better like
configuration.yaml
|- > gui/
| - > card1.yaml
| - > card2.yaml
| - > card3.yaml
Lastly, I am not sure what I would source this as… cards: !include my_gui.yaml
? badges: !include my_gui.yaml
? Something completely different?
Thanks for your help I have used hass for about a week now and while yaml is a bit hard to get into for a self taught hobbyist without much programming knowledge such as myself, I am really starting to like it, especially the way that everything can be configured through text files (opposed to node-red or ioBroker where most things are done manually in the GUI).
Cheers!