Having a lot of devices in esphome. When using the “update all” button I would like to be able to have a selector per device to be excluded from these auto updates.
I have some devices which “break” when they are updated to a newer version of esphome and I would like them to be excluded form auto updating.
Please add such an option.
Would be great, I do have the same “problem”. ESPHome can’t compile all devices on ARM.
I do have one device, with need’s compiled at a x86 cpu. I’d like / need to exclude this device.
Stop updating.
The devices work and they are on your local network and have no need for internet.
So why update them?
It’s s most likely not a security patch since they don’t have internet access.
(Or you could block them from internet on the router)
The only time I update is if I need to make a change on the device, but if I had the option to compile on the same version it’s already on then I would do that.
Then that means you want to have the option as well but opt all out by default.
Well kind off…
Would also be nice to NOT update devices that are offline anyway. Manually excluding them from the update would be the second best option.
I’d rather have an option to “ignore all updates” for a device. Currently devices I don’t want to update, like the WLED-reactive devices, constantly come up after every update. Other devices, like the Unifi wifi, I’d rather update at a certain time etc. That might be another feature request, actually, to auto-update at certain times. Might be feasible with automation. In any case, I’m going off, the feature “ignore all updates” please 
There is ota: component in ESPHome for over the air updates. By default ota: is included in every code. I assume, if I comment out #ota, updates will not work?
Never tested it.
Correct, but you can also just disable the update entity in HA.
I disabled update entity for one of my ESPHome device. Why I still have ‘update available’ for this device after todays ESPHome update?
that’s an update button… not the update entity. Also, that’s not home assistant, (where the update entity is disabled), that ESPHomes interface.
Sorry, you are right, it’s button.
Do you mean, I can disable update.esphome_update, but this way I disable update for ESPHome addon, for all my ESP devices?
I need to keep only esp32-1-wire device not updated. All other my ESPHome devices must update when available.
So what petro@ said was the HA updates can be disabled for devices so they do not show up when the system gets update notices.
I believe the topic of this thread, plus what I am asking for would be an option to completely disable even the update button for some devices within the add-on.
Has this feature been discussed? Also what about the comment from ratsepa@ about removing the “ota:” section from the yaml file, would that work or would it prevent any changes at all?
This has been discussed here in the forum, but the forum actually is not the place to post feature requests for ESPHome.
We discussed it there, but I didn’t get much feedback, so I decided to wait a bit, if some others come up with some FR, but in the end, I’ll make a FR to the ESPHome repo some time in the future.
Regarding ota:: Yes, if you remove that part from your ESPHome device config, you can’t update without a physical connection.
