How-to Upgrade to AppDaemon 15

[joBr99]

This is a summary of the action you have to do after you've upgraded from AppDaemon 14 to 15.

You config files have been moved from /config/appdaemon to /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon

See this if you need assistance to access the new folder:
https://docs.nspanel.pky.eu/configure_mqtt/#note-for-appdeamon-addon-version-15

There is one important change that you have to do to your appdaemon.yaml, which is also mentioned in the release notes of the new version.

1. Change this in your appdaemon.yaml:

from: secrets: /config/secrets.yaml
to: secrets: /homeassistant/secrets.yaml

This should already fix appdaemon, but do not stop here; next steps are required to get updates though hacs.

2. add this line in your appdaemon.yaml to configure your apps directory back to the old directory (below the appdaemon: key)

  app_dir: /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/

3. move your apps.yaml from /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps to the old location within /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/

4. redownload the nspanel-lovelace-ui app from HACS

5. optional cleanup; delete the apps folder in the addon's directory /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps

See #1028 if you are interested in more Details around this mess.

[Jelloitsalive12]

@joBr99 Are they any recommended steps if we are starting from AppDaemon 14 (I did a restore this morning to a backup this morning when I got in trouble because the clock time stopped).

[joBr99]

wdym? The steps above should be everything you need to do the update.

[Jelloitsalive12]

OK, I wasn't sure if there would be something I could do pre-emptively to configure the directories/yaml so that it worked when upgrading to 15. I am assuming after redownloading nspanel-lovelace-ui the custom configs we have will still work.

[joBr99]

Your apps.yaml&appdaemon.yaml won't be touched by redownloading the app from HACS.

However the update from AppDaemon moves all files to a different directory, see my link to the docs on how to access the new folder.

[Dattel]

app_dir: /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/

regarding these setting: so if i update on nspanel exists two times on my system

/addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps/nspanel-lovelace-ui
and
/homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/nspanel-lovelace-ui

i assume, that's only on the upgraded systems the case and i can safely delete /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps/nspanel-lovelace-ui?

[joBr99]

yes, the appdaemon upgrade moves the folder to /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps/nspanel-lovelace-ui, if you changed the app_dir you can safely delete the folder

[Dattel]

sadly no...
if i copy it back to addon_configs, it starts correct

s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-banner: starting

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 Add-on: AppDaemon
 Python Apps and Dashboard using AppDaemon 4.x for Home Assistant
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 Add-on version: 0.15.2
 You are running the latest version of this add-on.
 System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)  (amd64 / qemux86-64)
 Home Assistant Core: 2023.11.2
 Home Assistant Supervisor: 2023.11.3
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 Please, share the above information when looking for help
 or support in, e.g., GitHub, forums or the Discord chat.
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s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
Log level is set to INFO
s6-rc: info: service base-addon-log-level successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service init-appdaemon: starting
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://wheels.home-assistant.io/musllinux-index/
Collecting babel
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Installing collected packages: babel
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WARNING: Running pip as the 'root' user can result in broken permissions and conflicting behaviour with the system package manager. It is recommended to use a virtual environment instead: https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/venv
s6-rc: info: service init-appdaemon successfully started
s6-rc: info: service appdaemon: starting
s6-rc: info: service appdaemon successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
[21:28:26] INFO: Starting AppDaemon...
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
2023-11-15 21:28:28.892689 INFO AppDaemon: AppDaemon Version 4.4.2 starting
2023-11-15 21:28:28.892820 INFO AppDaemon: Python version is 3.11.6
2023-11-15 21:28:28.892902 INFO AppDaemon: Configuration read from: /config/appdaemon.yaml
2023-11-15 21:28:28.892979 INFO AppDaemon: Added log: AppDaemon
2023-11-15 21:28:28.893060 INFO AppDaemon: Added log: Error
2023-11-15 21:28:28.893142 INFO AppDaemon: Added log: Access
2023-11-15 21:28:28.893215 INFO AppDaemon: Added log: Diag
2023-11-15 21:28:29.010474 INFO AppDaemon: Loading Plugin HASS using class HassPlugin from module hassplugin
2023-11-15 21:28:29.126952 INFO HASS: HASS Plugin Initializing
2023-11-15 21:28:29.127094 WARNING HASS: ha_url not found in HASS configuration - module not initialized
2023-11-15 21:28:29.127218 INFO HASS: HASS Plugin initialization complete
2023-11-15 21:28:29.127401 INFO AppDaemon: Loading Plugin MQTT using class MqttPlugin from module mqttplugin
2023-11-15 21:28:29.173773 INFO MQTT: MQTT Plugin Initializing
2023-11-15 21:28:29.173921 INFO MQTT: Using 'appdaemon/status' as Will Topic
2023-11-15 21:28:29.174030 INFO MQTT: Using 'appdaemon/status' as Birth Topic
2023-11-15 21:28:29.174427 INFO AppDaemon: Initializing HTTP
2023-11-15 21:28:29.174774 INFO AppDaemon: Using 'ws' for event stream
2023-11-15 21:28:29.176838 INFO AppDaemon: Starting API
2023-11-15 21:28:29.178074 INFO AppDaemon: Starting Admin Interface
2023-11-15 21:28:29.178354 INFO AppDaemon: Starting Dashboards
2023-11-15 21:28:29.187240 INFO HASS: Connected to Home Assistant 2023.11.2
2023-11-15 21:28:29.207871 INFO MQTT: Connected to Broker at URL core-mosquitto.local.hass.io:1883
2023-11-15 21:28:29.225726 INFO AppDaemon: Got initial state from namespace mqtt
2023-11-15 21:28:29.226046 INFO MQTT: MQTT Plugin initialization complete
2023-11-15 21:28:29.297099 INFO HASS: Evaluating startup conditions
2023-11-15 21:28:29.307875 INFO HASS: Startup condition met: hass state=RUNNING
2023-11-15 21:28:29.308093 INFO HASS: All startup conditions met
2023-11-15 21:28:29.317460 INFO AppDaemon: App 'hello_world' added
2023-11-15 21:28:29.318272 INFO AppDaemon: App 'nspanel' added
2023-11-15 21:28:29.319609 INFO AppDaemon: App 'nspanel-test' added
2023-11-15 21:28:29.320244 INFO AppDaemon: Found 3 active apps
2023-11-15 21:28:29.320455 INFO AppDaemon: Found 0 inactive apps
2023-11-15 21:28:29.320621 INFO AppDaemon: Found 0 global libraries
2023-11-15 21:28:29.320802 INFO AppDaemon: Starting Apps with 3 workers and 3 pins
2023-11-15 21:28:29.321951 INFO AppDaemon: Running on port 5050
2023-11-15 21:28:29.328541 INFO AppDaemon: Got initial state from namespace default
2023-11-15 21:28:31.331338 INFO AppDaemon: Scheduler running in realtime
2023-11-15 21:28:31.332998 INFO AppDaemon: Adding /config/apps to module import path
2023-11-15 21:28:31.334054 INFO AppDaemon: Loading App Module: /config/apps/hello.py
2023-11-15 21:28:31.354689 INFO AppDaemon: Loading app hello_world using class HelloWorld from module hello
2023-11-15 21:28:31.355973 INFO AppDaemon: Calling initialize() for hello_world
2023-11-15 21:28:31.400536 INFO hello_world: Hello from AppDaemon
2023-11-15 21:28:31.401302 INFO hello_world: You are now ready to run Apps!
2023-11-15 21:28:31.402326 INFO AppDaemon: App initialization complete

[Dattel]

so here my appdaemon.yaml

secrets: /homeassistant/secrets.yaml
app_dir: /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/
appdaemon:
  latitude: 52.379189
  longitude: 4.899431
  elevation: 2
  time_zone: Europe/Berlin
  plugins:
    HASS:
      type: hass
    MQTT:
      type: mqtt
      namespace: mqtt
      client_id: "appdaemon"
      client_host: core-mosquitto.local.hass.io
      client_port: 1883
      client_user: "*******"
      client_password: "*****"
      client_topics: NONE
http:
  url: http://127.0.0.1:5050
admin:
api:
hadashboard:

In my last post you can see, that the hello_world app gots running - > because it is still exists in addon_configs/........
there is no trace of starting nspanel from the appdaemon/apps/nspanel-lovelace-ui

[joBr99]

It needs to be like this:

secrets: /homeassistant/secrets.yaml
appdaemon:
  app_dir: /homeassistant/appdaemon/apps/

However I'm currently trying to figure out how I convince appdaemon to load my apps.yaml ...

[Dattel]

thanks... is working
Sorry for asking.. you already described the correct position in your documentation earlier..

[Jelloitsalive12]

So now I have a weird problem. I restored to my previous backup of 14.0, then reupgraded to 15.2. As expected AppDaemon is not running again, but now, without making the changes to my appdaemon yaml (at least that I can tell), I still see logs in AppDaemon and my NSPanel seems to be working.

Any suggestion what I might have done to get into this weird state? Even after restart behavior is as described.

[joBr99]

idk what you did, but without the appdaemon add-on running it's not going to do anything