home-assistant.io/source/_includes/common-tasks/configuration_check.md

Configuration check

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After changing configuration or automation files, check if the configuration is valid before restarting Home Assistant Core.

Running a configuration check from the UI

1. Go to {% my profile title="your user profile" %} and enable Advanced Mode.
2. Go to {% my server_controls title="Developer tools > YAML" %} and in the Configuration validation section, select the Check configuration button.
   • This is to make sure there are no syntax errors before restarting Home Assistant.
   • It checks for valid {% term YAML %} and valid config structures.
3. If you need to do a more comprehensive configuration check, run the check from the CLI.

Running a configuration check from the CLI

Use the following command to check if the configuration is valid. The command line configuration check validates the {% term YAML %} files and checks for valid config structures, as well as some other elements.

ha core check

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After changing configuration files, check if the configuration is valid before restarting Home Assistant Core.

If your container name is something other than homeassistant, change that part in the examples below.

Run the full check:

docker exec homeassistant python -m homeassistant --script check_config --config /config

Listing all loaded files:

docker exec homeassistant python -m homeassistant --script check_config --files

Viewing an integration’s configuration (light in this example):

docker exec homeassistant python -m homeassistant --script check_config --info light

Or all integrations’ configuration

docker exec homeassistant python -m homeassistant --script check_config --info all

You can get help from the command line using:

docker exec homeassistant python -m homeassistant --script check_config --help

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