So I killed lovelace by pasting bad YAML into the raw editor

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So I decided today to try the configure UI portion of lovelace. I went to the raw editor, copied, pasted my old yaml file and hit save. Then I realized I had not actually hit copy, so I really pasted yaml from my configuration file.

Lovelace then decided it hated me, since I dumped a bunch of configuration data into it. Now when I try to view lovelace I just get a message that system log write was called, and in the log is a message about how chunk.js:5746:1881 TypeError: views is undefined.

I cannot get back to the editor, I cannot get to any page to edit the Lovelace in the UI. I tried manually editing the lovelace file in the .storage folder, no dice, I tried deleting the file, no dice.

Anyone have an idea how to get lovelace working again?

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ssh as root into your ha host.
cd /config/.storage
rm lovelace (delete the lovelace file and start over)

Personal opinion. I’ve used it and gave it a lot of leeway assuming a learning curve on my end but… I went back to manually editing ui-lovelace.yaml… I feel the online lovelace editor is far from ready for prime time.

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Hi
try to change your configuration to

lovelace:
  mode: yaml
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Ok this seemed to work, the trick I was missing is that I had to restart the server. Thanks.

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If this happens again, you can manually edit the file located at .storage/lovelace or just remove it to get back to auto-generated mode

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So I did blank out the file that didn’t fix it, then I deleted it and it didn’t fix it. HA refused to load anything. Finally I figured out I had to restart the server after deleting the file.