What can be reloaded without restarting?

[abmantis]

What configurations can be reloaded without restarting? reload_core_config only reloads customization? What about groups and views?
Also, according to this automations can be reloaded without restarting, by toggling their state, but it does not seem to work.

[tylercrumpton]

I’m curious about this as well. I have gotten some things to reload, but I am usually better served just restarting the whole service.

[Zen]

Groups and automations have their own services for reloading.

Go to the services page in your web UI (the one that looks like a mobile device with a signal bar - it is the left most icon under “Developer Tools”).

Once there, it’s just three steps:

• Click on the “domain” drop down, select “Groups” (or “automations”)
• Click on the “service” drop down, select “reload”
• Click on “Call Service”

This will work in a pinch, and is much nicer than waiting for HASS to restart everything completely while developing and testing. I find once I am done tweaking things, a good full restart is still usually a good idea. These “on-the-fly” reloads sometimes leave things in a weird state. (For example, I will sometimes end up with multiple copies of the same groups in the Web UI).

BTW - @abmantis, the “reload_core_config” as far as I know just reloads any customizations you have. (eg: things in the "customize: " stanza of your yaml - friendly names, icons, visibility, etc).

(edit: cleared up ambiguous usage of “reload” vs “restart”)

[tylercrumpton]

I see! The group and automation reloads are very useful, thank you.

[abmantis]

Cool! Haven’t noticed those services! Great tip.

[hoffsta (Sean)]

Also worth mentioning here, because it comes up on a search for ‘reloading automations’ is that you can create scripts for these so they can appear on your front end like this:

script:

  restart_ha:
    alias: Restart HomeAssistant
    sequence:
      - alias: Restart HA
        service: homeassistant.restart

  reload_automations:
    alias: Reload Automations
    sequence:
      - alias: Reload-Automations
        service: automation.reload

[kristoffernolgren]

I made a script that does this automatically whenever you update those files, feedback and imporvements are much appriciated:

I made a script that automatically updates homeassistant when I change my yaml-files

When developing new code, I think the feedback cycle is very important to keep your flow. I set up a simple script that monitors a couple of your files and automatically sends updates commands to homeassistant when they are updated. It’s a few steps to setup, but let me know if you have any questions or suggestions of improvements This instruction is for haspbian, but this should work on most unix-based systems. create a file named update.sh with this code in it. Make sure to update the path, …

[abmantis]

What about packages? How to reload the stuff in them? It seems that functionality is broken. For example, groups disappear if they are in packages and are reloaded…

[smile]

@hoffsta

appear on your front end

How appear on front. I copy and past your script in script.yaml, bit nothing show on Hass,io frontend.

[RezzZ (ReneS)]

alerts are not yet part of these easy reload options right?