It seems I have a weird issue, since nothing similar came up in my search: HACS is regularly up to date, but HACS frontend is not. Of course I have cleared the cache and restarted HA multiple times since the new version.
This is how it looks HACS for me and the “about” window.
Ever since I updated to HACS 2.0.1, I have problems updating HACS things. I will see that they need to be updated in the main page, which is great but when I hit update, it does a super quick update, like 5 seconds, and then it will show as restart needed. I restart and then it’s back in to the need to update section. I can update again and it all does the same. And then 2 or 3 or 4 days later, it’ll just disappear from the need to update section and I’m guessing it’s been updated? Very weird behavior.
I’m running latest version of Home Assistant.
Right now I have Pirate weather and Sonos card that just did it.
Never seen that.
HA or specific custom components?
Have you checked your logs?
It sounds like it could be a network-related issue.
Does this happen for all updates or specific custom components?
How would readers of your post know what that means, especially in time to come?
You are correct @parautenbach , about my HA version used. haha. I’m on 2024.9.3 right now. I just updated again this morning. The updates not working are specific to HACS integrations. All system and add ons updates work fine. You are also correct in sayin that I did not check my logs. Let me check them right now. Well I just rebooted so no logs yet. And the updates took after I updated to 2024.9.3. ( I updated again the HACS modules and then updated to 2024.9.3) So more than a restart.
I just deleted HASC from home assistant, rebooted twice etc, then re installed as per HASC.xyz instructions. It’s back up, I go for an update. I now have the same 5 updates waiting. I try one and it’s still doing the same thing. Click update, update happens in 5 seconds then it says it’s update. I reboot and of course I see the update smiling back at me.
Is there a manual way to update components?
Oh well at least I’m not the only one with this problem.
https://github.com/hacs/integration/issues/4097
Logs. Where are your logs?
If you click the GitHub link above, I posted my logs there.
Couldn’t figure out how to post the filcher. Sorry.
Nice to see you got an answer on GitHub. Hope it’s working now.
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Hya,
i’m running Home Assistant * Core2024.10.0 * Frontend20241002.2.
After updating HACS to 2.0, it simply does not loads
Integration entries
- HACS
86 services and 87 entities
! Not loaded
Is there a safe way to update HACS?
TIA
Is there a way to enable automatic updating?
Through an automation
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Slightly inconvenient, but doable 
Maybe tiny feature request to add automatic updating with version checking? If HA version installed >= HA version needed by integration/card, then update
This would work for cards, but for integrations you’d still need to restart HA.
Is updating integrations that much of a hassle, given one typically needs to check the changelog, as a best practice?
Updating without reading the changelog is a recipe for disaster. Even for cards. Their options change occasionally too.
With automatic updates the fist thing you know about it is all your dashboard is ruined or all your sensors stop working and you have to investigate why. Which is a lot more inconvenient than just reading the change log and then updating manually if no changes are required or making the changes then updating.
Don’t update anything without reading the changelog → don’t auto update.
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For sure. I was being diplomatic with my question: you could (partly) achieve that, but there are caveats. I will personally never do this (and never have), but for someone that wants to, they should understand what’s possible as well as the implications. Literally the only place I use auto updates are on my iPhone (and that’s for apps only, not iOS). Everything else I vet. Otherwise, it leads to many of the comments we see with every HA release (WebRTC being the current theme, as an example). So, I’m definitely not recommending it.
You cannot update if the version of HA does not meet the requirement. So automatic updating will probably prevent cards/integrations being broken due to breaking changes in HA.
Checking the changelog is good practice but honestly, 90% of changes are stuff like library updates or simply fixing things for new HA versions. So basically risk free or often even a necessity.
I have yet to update an integration or card to a new version and have an issue. But I have had issues upgrading HA and not the integrations/cards.
So, for me, since the version checking is in place, automatic updating is beneficial to system stability and not updating usually detremental.
Plus, if you don’t update you will constantly see an annoying notification counter. Since you cannot acknoledge it, you will update anyway. But that is a minor , additional benefit of automatic updating 