In pilight >5.0 the settings.json file has been merged into config.json

To alter the default behavior of the daemon, the settings object in the config.json can be edited. The default location of this file is /etc/pilight/config.json. All options and its default values are shown below (in alphabetical order):

...
"settings": {
	"action-root": "/usr/local/lib/pilight/action",
	"firmware-gpio-miso": 13,
	"firmware-gpio-mosi": 12,
	"firmware-gpio-reset": 10,
	"firmware-gpio-sck": 14,
	"firmware-update": 1,
	"function-root": "/usr/local/lib/pilight/function",
	"hardware-root": "/usr/local/lib/pilight/hardware",
	"log-file": "/var/log/pilight.log",
	"log-level": 4,
	"operator-root": "/usr/local/lib/pilight/operator",
	"pid-file": "/var/log/daemon/pilight.pid",
	"port": 5000,
	"protocol-root": "/usr/local/lib/pilight/protocols",
	"ntp-servers": [ "server1", "server2", ... ],
	"ntp-sync": 1,
	"receive-repeats": 1,
	"smtp-sender": "...@...",
	"smtp-user": "...@...",
	"smtp-password": "abdcd",
	"smtp-host": "smtp.abcd.com",
	"smtp-port": 25,
	"standalone": 0,
	"stats-enable": 1,
	"watchdog-enable": 1,
	"webgui-template": "default",
	"webgui-websockets": 1,
	"webserver-authentication": [ "username", "password" ],
	"webserver-cache": 1,
	"webserver-enable": 1,
	"webserver-port": 5001,
	"webserver-root": "/usr/local/share/pilight/",
	"webserver-ssl-port": 5002,
	"webserver-user": "",
	"whitelist": ""
}
...

The following settings can be set in the settings file. If you leave a setting out, then the default value will be used: