Access Your Home Assistant YAML Files

Home Assistant is a pretty powerful platform to build your smart home on. But in some ways, it is not all that user-friendly to those used to doing everything with an app on their phone.

In fact, at times it can be a bit maddening. For example, in many of the integrations, the documentation says you need to make changes directly to the configuration.YAML file. But in a fresh install of Home Assistant, there is no access to the configuration.YAML file.

So in this video, we are going to cover two ways to access those files.

Video Sections:

00:00 How do I Access My Yaml Files - Intro
01:15 Install the File Editor Add-on
03:00 Install the Samba Share Add-on
05:45 Wrapping up

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My Name is Jeff. I am a DIY-er and Automator of boring things. And, of course, a huge Home Assistant fan. Oh, I also live in a house that tweets.

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[scottgilson]

Awesome, super-simple explanation that I wasn't able to get from the HA documentation.

[MayankJairaj]

thanks!
for newer folks, the store is under add ons not supervisor

[johnswilley]

I love it! Liked and subscribed. informative, and succinct.

[sachavez]

Thanks!!!! Wish I had found this video You're getting a follow and like!

[frankyvee]

WinSCP can also be another way thats fairly easy to use especially if you already have SSH installed.

[markday]

A lot of UI-based configuration never ends up in YAML files. Thankfully, the embedded “show code” editor supports copy and paste, so I can copy from the browser, paste into a local editor, make changes, and copy/paste it back.

Try changing a grid of grid cards to move the cards around within the grids. There is no UI support, and you have to edit the raw YAML for the entire view.

[jamestam]

I installed HA core by portainer, there are no supervisor and add-on store.
how can I install on top of HA? thanks

[malcolmmcgrath]

Thanks that was useful

I found that my HA has in the sidebar Settings instead of Configuration and that Configurations were to be found in Settings > Devices & Services

I got to the end of your vid ready to add integration HACS and the options tell me that I know that there are no add-ons in HACS -

QUESTION: So does that mean that the HA add ons wont work if I turn on HACS

[michaelscottboston]

Supervisor tab isn't there. Is this video deprecated?

[Gladers.]

I dont have the "supervisor" on my HA. How do I add it?

[gogolapeter]

You helped me, thanks, but I kind of do not want to click LIKE, because you have exactly 404 likes at the moment LOL. OK, ok, I am clicking, I am ... 😅

[badpoop]

I don’t have a Supervisor option. How can I add that?

[chuxxsss]

Thanks, I subscribed. I now know why I used node-red for all my stuff back 4 or 5 years ago. Script files can suck. From an old amiga/Linux/Mac and QNX user.