Unable to disable app

[boriken72]

What happened?

In previous version of appdaemon I had ability to disable an app by simply putting a "." in front of the app. In 4.5.10 this method no longer works. The end result is that now when I try to run appdaemon it attempts to initialize all of my apps, even the disabled ones which are for testing only.

After the upgrade having a "." no longer works:

2025-06-17 23:18:18.332236 ERROR Error: ===== Failed to start '.BatteryCheck' ===================================2025-06-17 23:18:18.332454 ERROR Error: AppStartFailure: App '.BatteryCheck' failed to start

Also no supported method documented on how to disable app in 4.5.x except removing it completely.

Version

4.5.10

Installation type

Docker container

Relevant log output

2025-06-17 23:18:18.332236 ERROR Error: =====  Failed to start '.BatteryCheck'  ===================================2025-06-17 23:18:18.332454 ERROR Error: AppStartFailure: App '.BatteryCheck' failed to start

Relevant code in the app or config file that caused the issue

.BatteryCheck:
  class: BatteryCheck
  module: battery_info
  # log_level: DEBUG

Anything else?

No response

[acockburn]

Using a "." was never a supported way to disable apps. However, you did say that disable: 1 was not working, which should have the effect you are looking from, and is a bug if it's not working, we will take a look at that.

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