Auto update install for my esphome devices (by using HA) possible?

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Hi
I would like to been notified when there is an update available for my esphome devices.
since there are a lot updates going on, the prefered way is that I would like to use a home assistant automation that scans for available updates and install them automatically.
is something like this possible?

I already found this KriVaTri/ESPHome-Update-Manager: ESPHome device update manager for Home Assistant
but I'm not sure if an integration is required for what I need and maybe there is an easier option?

I use this in my esphome device yaml

ota:
  - platform: esphome

there is also no update or firmware entity in home assistant (at the esphome device), not sure how to add this though

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When using the ESPHome builder app in HA and you created a yaml for your device and you added the device in the ESPHome integration, an update entity will automatically be created in HA. You can find this entity in the ESPHome integration. When using an external builder, there will be no update entity available in HA.
But because I had the same questions as you and used automations for this before, but found that it was always limited in some way, I made the ESPHome update manager integration to have it all in one go.

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If you automatically install updates without reading the breaking changes in the release notes then it will eventually go poorly for you. Don't do this.

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