Splitting configuration debugging

Configuration
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Hi here!

I just got my HA and have been trying to dome some very shy tweaks. Mainly I’ve tried to follow this tutorial to integrate Solax. However, I wanted to keep things organised before they grew and got unmanageable. So I followed this Splitting up the configuration - Home Assistant and also a few repos.

What works:

configuration.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

# Text To Speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
sensor: !include_dir_merge_list sensor
template:
  - sensor:
      - name: "Solax Cloud Yield Today"
        state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.solax_rest_cloud', 'yieldtoday') }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
        unique_id: solax_2
        icon: mdi:flash
        device_class: energy
        state_class: total_increasing

This makes the sensor show up correctly. Then I tried to move this to a different structure:

configuration.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

# Text To Speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
sensor: !include_dir_merge_list sensor
template: !include_dir_merge_list template

And within template I’ve tried several structures:

└── template
    └── solax.yml

And also:

└── template
    └── sensors
        └── solax.yml

In any case the context of solax.yml is as follows:

- sensor:
    - name: "Solax Cloud Yield Today"
      state: "{{ state_attr('sensor.solax_rest_cloud', 'yieldtoday') }}"
      unit_of_measurement: "kWh"
      unique_id: solax_2
      icon: mdi:flash
      device_class: energy
      state_class: total_increasing

Upon restarting HA the sensor stops working and shows as unavailable. I don’t see any errors or anything that would lead me to know where the issue could be.

Is there something obvious I’m missing?

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From the advanced usage section:

We offer four advanced options to include whole directories at once. Please note that your files must have the .yaml file extension; .yml is not supported.

This will allow you to !include files with .yml extensions from within the .yaml files; without those .yml files being imported by the following commands themselves.

Rename solax.yml to solax.yaml and it works fine. .yml files only work when specifically targetted by a !include.

3

:man_facepalming:

Thanks a lot! I overlooked that part!