Improved YAML in Home Assistant Automations

[@bankimchandrayadav8154]

Thanks Kiril for the pdf and this small but vital update!

[@KPeyanski]

You are more than welcome :) Enjoy!

[@waynenocton]

I’m still blown away that people are smart enough to teach in what I assume is not their primary language, do you also have a similar channel doing the same kinds of things in your main language? I have a huge amount of respect for your intelligence.

[@KPeyanski]

Thanks so much for the kind words! It’s awesome how people can share ideas in different languages, right? I don’t have a channel in my mother's tongue yet, maybe one day when I have enough time. It's amazing how tech is making it easier for people to reach global audiences. Glad you appreciate it-it really means a lot!

[@MatthewBallinger]

Yes, more YAML! Thanks

[@KPeyanski]

No problems, thanks for the comment :)

[@ronm6585]

Yes. Thanks for sharing Kiril.

[@KPeyanski]

My pleasure!

[@josephgeorge3204]

Thank you Kiril :)

[@KPeyanski]

Any time and thanks for your comment :)

[@jeffstolpa8174]

Yes , more YAML and JSON please

[@KPeyanski]

they can be really useful indeed....

[@boorandras9723]

Not the new syntax is the problem. But I hate when the code editor (e.g. Visual Code Studio) highlight the old syntax as an error, despite the fact that the old syntax absolutely works.

[@KPeyanski]

yes, that is annoying indeed...

[@XEVIAN360]

They should really migrate to a real scripting language. This yaml is totally a mess.

[@KPeyanski]

I don't know, maybe, this will make it harder for the beginners....

[@BenVanTreese]

I get this, but the benefit of it being all data (excluding the template stuff), is that you can easily drive UI from yaml / convert UI to yaml via data only. A scripting language would require a ton of strangeness to convert between the UI and scripts. The side note of this is, if you really want to have customized scripts and etc, you can build macros + templates and reference those, so you kind get the best of both worlds imo.