Hello I’m new to the forum and I’m having a problem with an OLED 1306 display. I want it to read the data from a BMP85 temperature sensor. This is the code I compiled. The clock works perfectly, but it doesn’t give the temperature reading and only says “nam.” I apologize in advance, in case I’m …

Hi - before we start - you need to read this: [image] How to help us help you - or How to ask a good question Configuration Before we begin… This forum is not a helpdesk The people here don’t work for Home Assistant, that’s an open source project. We are volun…

Hi Format your post correctly as difficult for us to read, however your sensor component is wrong, you have platform as home assistant which is for a sensor connected to Home assistant rather than directly. See below for correct use of the sensor bit [image] BMP085 Temperature+Pressure Se…

Q: What’s wrong with your yaml? A: It’s not yaml :slight_smile:

I hope you’ll forgive me. I understand that the forum isn’t a Home Assistant help center. I don’t know how to upload the Yaml file. I download it, and the text editor is Windows Notepad, and that’s what I paste and copy. I’m sorry, no clumsiness.

[correct format] use the little symbol and paste your code form notepad betwen the lines.

Do you know why I don’t have code tags on my icons? I need to get it from “gear” icon [image]

hey, not sure about the yaml, but know that you can send the file to GPT/gemini (or copy paste it’s content, it doesn’t care about formatting) and ask what’s wrong with it, it personally solved a ton of issues for me also - note that you uploaded some passwords/api keys in your post, would suggest …

I suspect it’s just screen layout from whatever device you are using. They don’t appear in the bar if I open a reply from my phone.

Ok, thanks. For me it appears on phone but not on laptop.

[image] Karosm: Do you know why I don’t have code tags on my icons? I need to get it from “gear” icon I can assure you that I’ve tried it in Gemini and Deepseek and in Chatgpt, but when I try to validate, it always gives me an error. Thanks for the advice

What's wrong with my Yaml?

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zoogara (Daryl) June 5, 2025, 10:30pm 5

Hi - before we start - you need to read this:

Especially section 11 re formatting.

Enclose your yaml in preformatted text tags so that we can see your formatted code properly .