APPDAEMON: I cannot see any installed apps. What am I doing wrong?

[Taxxian]

Hello,

I installed the AppDaemon Addon in the HA SuperVisor. I can launch the UI and there is the Hello World App but nothing else...

I installed multiple Apps from HACS but none of them is visible. (I only need NSPANEL the rest was for testing)

There are no log entries I am aware of...

Whats odd is:
All Apps installed through HACS are going to:
/config/appdaemon/apps
While the Hello World App is in:
/addons_config/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps

Is that the problem? And how to solve it?

I may have installed and removed AppDaemon many years ago for testing, but I never needed it until now so I do not exactly remember.

Regards,

Martin

[dretful]

/addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon/

the docs could do with a bit on this. they all refer to /config/apps but thats not where it all is on HA green. you need to edit the files in the above location.

[pacmac]

I am having similar problems, the appdaemon starts and the log shows that it loaded it's default file, but there is no apps folder and even adding it with the test files shown in the docs does not get loaded.

the log files shows all is good:

[01:26:31] INFO: Starting AppDaemon...
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
2025-12-27 02:26:33.838808 INFO AppDaemon: ------------------------------------------------------------
2025-12-27 02:26:33.838911 INFO AppDaemon: AppDaemon Version 4.5.12 starting
2025-12-27 02:26:33.838984 INFO AppDaemon: ------------------------------------------------------------
2025-12-27 02:26:33.839065 INFO AppDaemon: Python version is 3.12.12
2025-12-27 02:26:33.839162 INFO AppDaemon: Configuration read from: /config/appdaemon.yaml
2025-12-27 02:26:33.839593 INFO AppDaemon: Using /config/apps as app_dir
2025-12-27 02:26:33.840302 INFO AppDaemon: Loading built-in plugin 'HASS' using 'HassPlugin' from 'appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassplugin'
2025-12-27 02:26:33.840490 INFO HASS: HASS Plugin initialization complete
2025-12-27 02:26:33.840670 INFO AppDaemon: Initializing HTTP
2025-12-27 02:26:33.840901 INFO AppDaemon: Using 'ws' for event stream
2025-12-27 02:26:33.842304 INFO AppDaemon: Starting API
2025-12-27 02:26:33.843406 INFO AppDaemon: Starting Admin Interface
2025-12-27 02:26:33.843568 INFO AppDaemon: Starting Dashboards
2025-12-27 02:26:33.845755 INFO AppDaemon: Scheduler running in realtime
2025-12-27 02:26:33.846685 INFO AppDaemon: Starting apps with 1 worker threads. Apps will all be assigned threads and pinned to them.
2025-12-27 02:26:33.849507 INFO AppDaemon: Running on port 5050
2025-12-27 02:26:33.850092 INFO AppDaemon: Waiting for plugins to be ready
2025-12-27 02:26:33.853149 INFO HASS: Connected to Home Assistant 2025.12.4 with aiohttp websocket
2025-12-27 02:26:33.854380 INFO HASS: Authenticated to Home Assistant 2025.12.4
2025-12-27 02:26:33.856639 INFO HASS: Waiting for Home Assistant to start
2025-12-27 02:26:33.858772 INFO AppDaemon: All plugins ready
2025-12-27 02:26:33.873246 INFO AppDaemon: Starting apps: ['hello_world']
2025-12-27 02:26:33.875190 INFO AppDaemon: Calling initialize() for hello_world
2025-12-27 02:26:33.892850 INFO HASS: Completed initialization in 48.203ms
2025-12-27 02:26:33.921293 INFO hello_world: Hello from AppDaemon
2025-12-27 02:26:33.921797 INFO hello_world: You are now ready to run Apps!
2025-12-27 02:26:37.774861 INFO AppDaemon: New client Admin Client connected

However there is no such folder or file /config/appdaemon.yaml nor config/apps folder.

Having read other's post they say it is here: /addons_config/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps

But it is not:

➜  /config pwd
/config
➜  /config ls apps*
zsh: no matches found: apps*
➜  /config ls /addons_config/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps
ls: /addons_config/a0d7b954_appdaemon/apps: No such file or directory
➜  /config ls /addons_config/*_appdaemon/apps
zsh: no matches found: /addons_config/*_appdaemon/apps
➜  /config ls /addons_config/
ls: /addons_config/: No such file or directory
➜  /config ls addons*
addons:
repository.json

addons_config:
filebrowser  fireflyiii
➜  /config ls addons_config*
filebrowser  fireflyiii

After adding /config/apps/apps.yaml and the associated .py file, it is not recognized nor loaded, even with a restart of the app.

And yes I rebooted the system after installing appdaemon, no difference at all.

So I have no clue where appdaemon is installed or where to add my scripts !

[pacmac]

OK found it and linked it to /config/appdaemon

ln -s /addon_configs/a0d7b954_appdaemon /config/appdaemon
ls appdaemon
a0d7b954_appdaemon  appdaemon.yaml      apps                compiled            dashboards          namespaces          www