YAML configuration

[dewi-ny-je]

@hif2k1 after this latest release I was thinking... do we need YAML configuration? is it something people actually use?

It has no auto-completion, so people could introduce typos, it has no entity validation so wrong entities (wrong unit of measure, type) might end up selected causing issues. Efficiency curves can be defined, but I can't say for sure they work, and synax is trickier.

In exchange for? I think nothing, what's the advantage of YAML configuration?

I think that most modern integrations don't even offer it anymore, even HA is moving everything they can to web config.

If you are fin with it, I'll just remove it to keep the code simpler and avoid troubles for the users.

[dewi-ny-je]

@hif2k1 on the other hand, the simulator is (from my point of view) complete, it has all features and it's been updated to follow changes in HA, and it has now full tests, so it will work for a long time.

I'll get the battery in a couple of months, then I might still use the simulator to test alternative approaches before applying them to my real battery, but clearly my involvment from end of the summer will decrease.

I will keep it up to date with future HA changes, if needed.

[hif2k1]

Well, thank you so much for all your contributions. I would never have had the time to do all this work and bring it up to date. I agree yaml is being depreciated across HA. There may be a few people still using it who started early on so I guess it may break their setups if we remove it. I don't think there is a good way of knowing how many people that might be, but I think it is inevitable. We would just need to make it clear in the release notes that it is a breaking change.

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[dewi-ny-je]

I put a deprecation in the Readme and I can mention it in the release notes for the next version.
In one year time or later it can be removed.
One year is plenty of time for a warning.

[dewi-ny-je]

Also, thanks to you for being open minded about allowing someone else to keep working on it.
I'm trying to improve/update Apexcharts-card for HA (basically abandoned) and I was told I might not get any reply or permission by the maintainer...