A developer shares two unexpected issues encountered while configuring Home Assistant automations for motorized rolling shutters. The first bug: time-based automations get stuck on the pre-Daylight Saving Time offset (Paris/+1 instead of Paris/+2 in summer) until Home Assistant restarts, causing automations to fire an hour late. The second bug: overriding even a single line in the homeassistant YAML configuration section wipes out all UI-configured settings (temperature unit, distance, internal URL, etc.), falling back to defaults. The fix requires explicitly re-declaring every configuration parameter in YAML. Both issues have been reported on GitHub and closed as 'not planned'.
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