After updating to 2023.5.3, I have have two confounding problems.
First, my water heater was turned off during the update, and I got no notification about it. I confirmed after getting out of my 5-minute suddenly cold shower when it went cold that it turned off at the same time as the occurrence of this update. I manually set it back to on, and it has held steady. My trust does not hold steady.
The other problem that continues to linger is that my HVAC suddenly started going into a non running state at around the same time. I have to flip off the breaker for the inside unit in order for it to start functioning again. Without evidence to the contrary, I’m not willing to chalk it up to coincidence, since it also began at the same time. After the fourth cycling of the HVAC over 3 days, it seems to have settled. The user interface gives very little to go on on what may have changed with the device and when.
This really makes me wonder what my monthly HA fee is funding. “Century of the functioning water heaters and air conditioners” trump’s “year of the neato feature” every single time, yet we still cannot trust the updates to core, stable areas. I waited something like 5 releases before installing this one, hoping that it was stable. The problem is that no matter how long we wait, the deployment model puts us at risk. We need the ability to deploy only properly aged and tested updates that have only bug fixes associated with the release. No new features in that install path. Until that occurs, we simply cannot expect stability. It’s the nature of the current approach.
So nothing in the logbook, system log or automation traces?
My thermostats are still functioning correctly. It could be because we use different integrations or it could be a problem with the way you have configured home assistant. Until you know for sure it is a bit early to be casting blame. So:
Look at your system log for errors.
Look at your logbook for events related to your thermostats.
Look at any relevant automation traces.
You could even search the forum and Home Assistant Core Issues for similar problems (use the “Labels” filter to narrow down your github search to your particular integration).
If you are not happy with monthly updates to Home Assistant, with the occasional breaking change that usually takes less than 5 minutes to fix, there are plenty of alternatives.
Personally I like the rapid evolution and development.
Hi Thomas, I can understand your frustration, even more if you have to take a cold shower: that can really be a wake-up-call.
The risk of not updating is that many things have changed/broken between the different releases and minor updates.
Did you check all the breaking changes between the version you had installed and 2023.5.3?
If not, it’s strongly advised to do so with every update you do next time.
You’re not a novice with HA: you know that the project is evolving at a hi pace and you might like it (or not) but that means even more it’s not a good idea not to check breaking changes.
You are not mentioning which integrations you use in you OP, so that’s difficult to get help but jcch already pointed that out.
