Config file not updating on new SD card

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I had my SD card fail and have uploaded the GitHub files. The unit is working ok but when I try loading my old config file config+1.txt (3.7 KB) I am having errors on lines 168,178,188, 228.

All these lines except 188 had a “ | “ at the end so I tried removing but that did not help.

178 and 188 are the same formula and 168 and 228 are the same formula so I tried deleting one of each which also didn’t help.

I then tried deleting the remaining and I’m still not successful in updating just getting the log errors

1/10/26 13:24:58z Config file parse failed.
1/10/26 13:24:58z Config update failed.

Can I just load this straight to the config file on the SD card? Or is this going to cause issues.

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The config that you uploaded is not valid json. It appears that the first line containing the opening brace for the overall json object is missing (‘{‘).

I always use the jsonlint before to check my json files.

Adding that line, validating with jsonlint and uploading as config+1.txt. Yes you can just remove the SDcard and replace config.txt, but as you suspect it will not go well if there is an error. The reason you upload as config+1.txt is to pre-screen the file, IoTaWatt will install and replace your config.txt if the file not only is valid json, but also many other checks to insure it will install OK.

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