Adding New Device Issue - YAML File & CLI

[polskikrol]

Version

2026.1.3

What type of installation are you using?

Docker

Browser

Brave

What happened?

Wanted to add a new device by creating a new YAML file. So, in the /config directory, copied one of my templates and populated the values for IPs, API keys, etc. I was expecting the new file / device to be picked up by the web browser and show up in the GUI but it did not. So, this is the first issue.

Second issue, is that I tried to run the install for this new file via 'root@esphome:/config# esphome run esphome-dev.yaml'. Now the device showed up, BUT the run command did not use the correct name from the .yaml file:

root@esphome:/config# cat esphome-dev.yaml | grep name
  name: esphome-dev 
  friendly_name: ESPHOME-DEV 

Instead, it used the name of the previous device I had added via the GUI -- ESPHOME-HOTUB.

I would have expected it to use the correct name.

How to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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