Hello everyone, welcome back to WhatAreWeFixing.Today! Today I’m working on an update for my Home Assistant system and I thought it would be great to share this process with you. As some of you may know, there were recent changes to the YAML configuration files in Home Assistant, specifically for versions 2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML Changes, which means that some people’s configurations no longer match the current documentation.

Now don’t worry, these older configurations will still work just fine and won’t be deprecated. However, if you’re like me, it can be frustrating to see different styles of code in your configuration files, especially when they’re not consistent with the official documentation. Besides, updating them is a simple task that can be done in just a few minutes.

In this video, I’ll walk you through how to easily update your YAML configurations to match the current Home Assistant documentation. It’s a quick fix and will make it easier for you to manage your configuration files going forward. So let’s get started and see how we can quickly update our 2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML configurations together!

Episode: 122

2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML Changes NOTES:

• Be certain to have a fresh backup before you do anything. things can go badly here
• It is your responsibility to check all the proposed edits before you approve them
• Search for action: followed by an enter & replace with actions: followed by an enter
• Search for service: followed by an enter & replace with action: followed by an enter
• Search for trigger: followed by an enter & replace with triggers: followed by an enter
• Search for – platform: followed by a space & replace with – trigger: followed by a space
• Search for condition: followed by an enter & replace with conditions: followed by an enter

2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML Changes YouTube Chapters:

00:00 How to Migrate Home Assistant 2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML Changes
01:20 What are we Changing?
04:25 If you use Just the UI Editor
05:35 First: action: to actions:
08:35 service: to action:
09:50 trigger: to triggers:
11:15 platform: to trigger:
15:20 condition: to conditions:
20:12 Review Results
21:30 Epilogue

2024.8 & 2024.10 YAML Changes Video related links:

2028.8 Release Notes:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/08/07/release-20248/#goodbye-service-calls-hello-actions-
2024.10 Release Notes:
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/10/02/release-202410/#improved-yaml-syntax-for-automations
Tom_l’s note:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/studio-code-server-upgrade-to-v5-16-0/776689/9

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