Why the heck is a restart needed for each an every change to configuration.yaml?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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It’s good to see that I was not alone in my WTH experience. But what’s really awesome is to see what’s getting done about it in just a few week’s time! Thanks @bdraco!

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any chance for lights (incl light groups, mqtt lights) and switches (incl. mqtt switches)?

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Light groups were already done here

Draft for MQTT (may not make it in time for 0.115)

Others in progress

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@bdraco I just wanted to say you are amazing! :clap: :clap: :clap:

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There are a few more in the works, however I’m not sure there will be time to get them reviewed before 0.115 beta:

group notify

rest notify

telegram notify

smtp notify

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Another one based on @bdraco guide:

Unfortunately, the created test is failing, but I think that’s something related to RPi.GPIO library and not reload service.
It is tested and merged :muscle:

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If I can make a wish for the future: the Alexa integration. It’s annoying having to restart just to change which entities that are exposed.

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Sadly I don’t have anything amazon I’m using in production so I wouldn’t feel comfortable adding it. If you are up to it, you maybe able to reuse most of what I wrote for HomeKit here https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/39326

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How about Google / cloud?

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I’m in the HomeKit camp so no google devices either. If something is done for alexa, it could likely be reused for google_assistant as well.

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then my ryzen 9 3950x is megadeath

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@bdraco I am impressed with your work, and the responsiveness to this thread!

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Short request: Reload template sensors

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Already done :white_check_mark:

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“Award of Distinction for Correcting Long-standing Deficiencies” goes to bdraco.

Kudos for fixing pain points that have existed for far too long. :+1:

It might not be as sexy as a new Lovelace card but it’s the kind of fundamental improvement that make Home Assistant a much better product.

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@bdraco you’re a god damn beast! Kudos to you! One question tho, do you sleep from time to time? :rofl:

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Just question to @bdraco
How does reload work? Does it restart all entities of particular integration, all just those which settings have been changed.
In other words isit real reload or restart of oart of HA?

Regardless the answer thank you for amazing work

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It re-reads the yaml configuration, resets the existing entities, and sets the integration platforms back up again.

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thanks for the answer.
So next step (maybe good idea for next WTH edition) would be to reset only entities which config has been changed since last time :wink:

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It is great to see more things independently loadable. I would love to see external database recorder and sensors reloadable. In my case influxdb.

I encountered a need for this when I shutdown my whole home lab and when I powered up I encountered a race condition where my HA on bare metal boots before my unraid server which runs things like influxdb, Logitech media server.
It reminded me of the days when things like LIFX needed to be on when I booted HA and I had to make sure my whole house of smart things was on/available whenever I rebooted HA or entities would be missing. I have 1000+ entities now so it is frustrating to have to reboot the whole HA instance for one missing entity.