Latest 0.209.2 Add-On Version breaks if I upgrade because of renamings, where can I find the database to potentially fix this issue myself?

[ser1us]

Sorry to ask this here.

I have the latest HACS version of EVCC installed. HomeAsisstant gives me the hint to update the AddOn to Version 0.209.2, but afterwards the AddOn cannot start anymore. I assume it's because of this PR evcc-io/evcc#24307 which says (the changelog too) to have breaking changes and we need to update yaml files.

But how can I make the necessary adjustments if I have the experimental UI configuration enabled? All the settings are in a database as far as I understand and after upgrading I receive errors like this:

[main  ] FATAL 2025/10/18 11:40:19 charger [db:5] cannot create charger 'db:5': cannot create charger type 'template': invalid key: switchentity
loadpoint [db:6] missing charger instance

Is it possible to update the database manually?

Thanks a lot!

Cheers

[bierma1966]

From which Version of EVCC Addon you are coming ?
Did you have HA and EVCC installed?
Make an Backup before.
Than you have following the instruction .

[marq24]

Unfortunately you must ask this in the evcc github project. The made a breaking change in the config... they must provide N upgrade quide...

Since I still not use the UI to setup my evcc, I could easily adjust the evcc
yaml to adopt my config to the new properties...

IMHO this changes should have been automatically done for UI/db Users when updating to 0.209.2...

But if this is not the case, you probably must open the sqlite file manually (with a tool) and adjust the configuration by yourself... But I am not sure if this is the way to go..
Again evcc broke it... they must provide hints how to fix it.

[ser1us]

Thanks a lot for pointing me to the correct repository. I have created a ticket evcc-io/evcc#24541. Cheers!

I agree, as a developer myself I find it a little bit confusing as to why you would want to break peoples setup on purpose...

[marq24]

Sometimes there is no way around a BREAKING CHANGE - so that's IMHO fine in general - but the issue with this one here seams to be, that users like you (using the UI to configure the items) have to chance to correct/adopt the HA-switch template, since evcc is refusing to start (after updating to 0.209.2)...

It could be, that evcc have a start parameter that you can use to ignore the current setting on startup, so that you are able to access the configuration via the UI... But hopefully evcc Dev's have an idea how to solve this.

[marq24]

And finally evcc confirmed and fixed this with evcc-io/evcc#24618