WTH do some integrations have to be uninstalled and reinstalled completely to change options?

Month of "What the heck?!"
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One thing I much preferred about the YAML integrations is that I could go in and change one thing in their config and restart. With many of the UI integrations, a lot of the options have vanished after the integration has been set up and if you want to change anything, you have to reinstall them completely. Can’t we have a config pane for each integration after it’s been installed with all the options including the original setup ones?

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It’s actually even worse than that. There are some settings that can’t be changed even on initial configuration, and not just later (for example, as I discovered last night, the ZHA integration’s Zigbee channel setting).

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Exactly…so annoying, especially if you have customized any of the entities and then have to delete integration just to make some basic change (like IP address where a device is located).

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I preferred the YAML way for configuration. That could also easily be version controlled.

Can’t we just store the GUI configuration in a YAML file and have to best of both worlds ?

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Can’t you set that thru yaml?

zha:
  zigpy_config:
    network:
      channel: 15             # What channel the radio should try to use.
      channels: [15, 20, 25]  # Channel mask

Take a look in the docs:

I believe the fact that you have to rebuild your Zigbee network have nothing to do with moving settings to the UI, but it is related to the Zigbee protocol itself.