ESPHome Update Manager – Issues & Feature Requests

[LawrenceH]

First off, really great work on this integration, exactly what I was looking for! Managing ESPHome firmware updates has always been a bit of a manual chore and this fills a real gap.

Here are a few things I noticed along the way while testing this, both some issues and some ideas that I think could make it even better (I’m currently running v.1.2.6):

Suggested enhancements

• Button “Live logs” – open a window with the current device logs. Worth considering docked vs. floating/modal window as a design option.
• Round-robin log archive – keep a configurable number of archived ESPHome Update Manager and device logs (e.g. 10).
• Extend ESPHome Update Manager’s own log to include “from version > to version” under “Details:” – the current log shows that an update happened but not what changed, which makes it less useful for audit purposes.
• Rename the side panel from “ESPHome updates” to “ESPHome Update Manager”. (see red marker in the attached screenshot down below). EDIT: If you think “ESPHome Update Manager” is too long, I prefer “ESPHome Manager.”
• Display the current version number in the ESPHome Update Manager panel header or as a subtitle.
• Manual refresh/rescan button to force re-detection of available updates rather than waiting for the next scheduled check.

Current issues

1. I have a zombie device in ESPHome Update Manager I can’t get rid of (see yellow marker in the screenshot). I have tried restart/delete/reload the integration etc without success. The zombie device doesn’t show up in the ESPHome Builder.

Screenshot:

The ESPHome Update Manager Log:

ESPHome Update Manager - Update Log
Timestamp: 2026-03-04 12:39:37
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Summary: 1 device(s) processed
  ✅ Success:   1
  ❌ Failed:    0
  ⏭️  Skipped:   0
  ⛔ Cancelled: 0

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Details:
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✅ update.pana_hz25tke_firmware
   Status: success
   Started: 2026-03-04T12:31:37.954326
   Finished: 2026-03-04T12:39:37.970724

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End of log
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[Krivatri]

Hi, I have answered your questions in the original topic:

[Custom Integration] ESPHome Update Manager

Thank you @LawrenceH for using this integration. Because there already is a topic on this integration, I will answer your questions here instead of ESPHome Update Manager – Issues & Feature Requests about live logs: Live device logs are out of scope for this integration - the ESPHome Dashboard already provides that functionality. log archive: I had this idea when building the integration but was not convinced this would be needed. I’ll add it to the backlog. If you really need to, you could a…

[LawrenceH]

Okay, great! I missed that you already started the topic [Custom Integration] ESPHome Update Manager. Closing this thread as “fixed”