Enabling Debug Logging in Home Assistant

Debug logging is a valuable tool for troubleshooting and diagnosing issues. By enabling debug logging, you can gain deeper insight into the communication between Home Assistant and the external service, helping you to identify and resolve problems that may arise. This wiki page provides step-by-step instructions on how to enable debug logging in Home Assistant.

Prerequisites

Before enabling debug logging, ensure that you have the following:

1. Home Assistant Installed: You should have Home Assistant installed and running on your system.
2. Access to Configuration Files: You should have access to the configuration files of your Home Assistant instance.

Steps to Enable Debug Logging

Follow these steps to enable debug logging in Home Assistant:

1. Access Integration Settings: Log in to your Home Assistant dashboard and navigate to the integrations page.
2. Locate the Integration: Find the Volkswagen WeConnect integration.
3. Enable Debug Logging: Within the configuration, there should be a checkbox labeled "Enable full debug logs from API (requires debug logging enabled in config)".
4. Check the Checkbox: Tick the checkbox to enable full debug logging from the API.

5. Access Configuration Files: Using your preferred text editor or file manager, navigate to the directory where your Home Assistant configuration files are stored. This is typically located in config directory in your Home Assistant installation.
6. Open configuration.yaml: Locate and open the configuration.yaml file in your preferred text editor.
7. Add Logger Configuration: Inside the configuration.yaml file, add the following lines to enable debug logging:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    volkswagencarnet: debug
    custom_components.volkswagencarnet: debug

This configuration tells Home Assistant to log debug messages for the volkswagencarnet integration.

8. Save Changes: After adding the logger configuration, save the configuration.yaml file and close the text editor.
9. Restart Home Assistant: To apply the changes, restart your Home Assistant instance. You can do this through the Home Assistant interface or by restarting the Home Assistant service, depending on how Home Assistant is installed on your system.
10. Monitor Logs: Once Home Assistant has restarted, monitor the logs for debug messages related to the volkswagencarnet. You can access the logs through the Home Assistant interface or by viewing the log files directly.

Disabling Debug Logging

After you have finished troubleshooting, it's a good practice to disable debug logging to prevent unnecessary log clutter. To disable debug logging for the integration, simply remove or comment out the logger configuration added earlier in the configuration.yaml file.