YAML might take a while to get used to but is really powerful in allowing you to express complex configurations. While more and more integrations are configured through the UI, for some, you will add code in your configuration. The following example entry assumes that you would like to set up ñame notify integration with the pushbullet platform.

The basics of YAML syntax are block collections and mappings containing key-value pairs. Each item in a collection starts with a – while mappings have the format key: value. This is somewhat similar to a Hash table or more specifically a dictionary in Python. These can be nested as well. Beware that if you specify duplicate keys, the last value for a key is used. Note that indentation is an important part of specifying relationships using YAML.

Getting the right indentation can be tricky if you’re not using an editor with a fixed width font. Tabs are not allowed to be used for indentation. Convention is to use 2 spaces for each level of indentation. You can use the online service YAML Validator to check if your YAML syntax is correct before loading it into Home Assistant which will save you some time. If you do so, be aware that this is a third-party service and is not maintained by the Home Assistant community. Private data can be stored in either a separate file or in environmental variables, which circumvents this security problem. The next example shows an input_select integration that uses a block collection for the values of options.

Note that the second line just has threat: with no value on the same line. Here threat is the name of the input_select and the values for it are everything nested below it. The following example shows nesting a collection of mappings in a mapping. Note that this will only work for Home Assistant Core installations, in a scenario where it is possible to specify these. Default value If an environment variable is not set, you can fallback to a default value. Including entire files To improve readability, you can source out certain domains from your main configuration file with the !

More information about this feature can also be found at splitting configuration. This means that you’ve mistakenly entered a tab character, instead of spaces. Upper and lower case Home Assistant is case sensitive, a state of ‘on’ is not the same as ‘On’ or ‘ON’. Doors is not the same as group. If you’re having trouble, check the case that Home Assistant is reporting in the dev-state menu, under Developer tools. Booleans YAML treats Y, true, Yes, ON all as true and n, FALSE, No, off as false. This means that if you want to set the state of an entity to on you must quote it as ‘on’ otherwise it will be translated as setting the state to true.

Website powered by Jekyll and the Oscailte theme. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. In Puerto Rico, sancocho is considered a fairly rustic dish. In Venezuela, sancochos are prepared throughout the country, recognized as a typical meal of the weekend. These soups are major Venezuelan cuisine dishes that are not usually accompanied by other foods. Consumed at lunchtime or in the evening, the stew is a common dish at celebrations, usually served during or after meals—the latter, according to popular belief, to relieve hangover.

For this reason, it is typical to serve this dish for lunch on Christmas or New Year’s Day. In Trinidad and Tobago, it is known as sancoche or “Saturday soup”, because, like the Venezuelan version, it is primarily eaten on the weekend. The fish version of the dish is known as “fish broff”. It is usually served with cassava or with arepas. There are variants of the same, such as the cruzado and the three-phase, when three types of meat are combined. The popularity of this dish is seen at celebrations: Instead of saying one is going to a party, it is common to “go to a sancocho. Colloquially, it is often simply called “soup”.