ZHA not starting when enabling quirks

[matsrosenberg]

Hello, when I try to enable quirks for Home Assitant ZHA with the following parameters in configuration.yaml, ZHA is not starting anymore – could anyone help? Possibly the database_path is wrong – I don’t know what this should be and the HA documentation does not really help…

# Enables Zigbee quirk configurations
zha:
database_path /config/
enable_quirks true
custom_quirks_path /config/zhaquirks

[koying (Chris B)]

Properly indent and use colon between key and values. This is basic YAML

How to setup local ZHA quirks

The steps as I understand them: Create a custom quirk dir in HA, e.g., /config/custom_zha_quirks In configuration.yaml, point to this directory: zha: custom_quirks_path: /config/custom_zha_quirks/ in this directory, create the python file with content of the quirk

[Hedda]

@matsrosenberg

I don’t know what this should be and the HA documentation does not really help

See - Add a how-to guide for how end-users can use a custom quirk in ZHA by Hedda · Pull Request #2419 · zigpy/zha-device-handlers · GitHub

Also copied here → How to setup local ZHA quirks - #6 by Hedda

[mike38 (Michel)]

Hello

I am new in this matter so forgive me if I write something stupid or obvious, but shouldn’t the configuration be (with colons):

zha:
  database_path: /config/
  enable_quirks: true
  custom_quirks_path: /config/zhaquirks/

[matsrosenberg]

Thank you for answering. This is the first ever time I write YAML, so steep learning. Actually tried colons and indents but did not work for some other reason.

[matsrosenberg]

@Hedda Many, many thanks for this very clear guidance. Explained everything. This should indeed be added to HA documentation.