I don’t use default_config because I don’t want ssdp and zeroconf to monitor and report devices it might find (or logbook, history, and updater). The consequences of this decision can be quite impactful.
For example, if you overlook to include input_boolean, input_text, etc then the Helpers feature will be unusable. Case in point, if you only add this to configuration.yaml:
input_text:
input_datetime:
input_boolean:
Then this is how the Helper menu will present it (notice the unavailable helpers):
So if you’ve chosen not to use default_config and later on you notice ‘unusual behavior’, it might be because you overlooked to include options that are normally part of default_config.
I don’t understand how you could have had a functional config without them, before they were added to the default config. They have been basic building blocks since day dot.
EDIT: also I really don’t have any objection to an ignore list. I was just pointing out it’s pretty simple to use a manual config and read the release notes.
As I explained in the related topic, I was performing a new installation. Nothing from my existing installation was copied over. The sole modification was to cherry-pick options from default_config. Besides that, everything was to be created the “new way”.
It wasn’t clear to me that the UI-based Helper feature still needs the YAML configuration for the simple task of displaying a list of helpers. After all, it doesn’t store Helpers there but in the .storage folder.
