Tip: default_config contains a lot!

@123 wrote:

I don’t use default_config because I don’t want ssdp and zeroconf to monitor and report devices it might find (or logbook, history, and updater). The consequences of this decision can be quite impactful.

default_config is shorthand for a lot of other options.

For example, if you overlook to include input_boolean, input_text, etc then the Helpers feature will be unusable. Case in point, if you only add this to configuration.yaml:

input_text:

input_datetime:

input_boolean:

Then this is how the Helper menu will present it (notice the unavailable helpers):

So if you’ve chosen not to use default_config and later on you notice ‘unusual behavior’, it might be because you overlooked to include options that are normally part of default_config.

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