Home Assistant

ESPHome 'ota' requires a 'platform' key but it was not specified.

With the update to ESPHome greater 2024.06, some of my devices couldn’t be updated as they showed the following error: 1 'ota' requires a 'platform' key but it was not specified. The solution was to edit the config file where i originally had a section like this: 1 2 ota: password: !secret esphome_ota_password Which, since the merge of a specific PR  into 2024.06 has to look like that (also described here  ): ...

Home Assistant: Change file without core running

Recently i managed to change a file in the Home Assistant configuration and then i forgot about that change… a bit later i started the upgrade to the latest version of Home Assistant which doesn’t check if Home Assitant could be started with the current configuration … of course i had managed to break it and so home assistant “core” didn’t start. The solution was to logon either via SSH (if you have the addon installed and configured) or to have access to the console of the Home Assistant OS. Once you are logged on, follow these steps: ...