What can be reloaded without restarting?

Configuration
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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.

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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.

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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”)

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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