HASS Released Version & Automation with Release Notes - Updated with new Docker Image sensor

[ohadbenita]

[Update - Nov. 4th 18]

To solve the issue for Docker users I’ve updated the automation and added another sensor that gets the updated released version from DockerHub and that way no false alarms, the next improvement would be to allow for update from the automation / script that will trigger the upgrade of the docker image and recreation of the container, the updated automation and sensors are updated in the below pastebin yaml snippet

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Today the upgrade notification in the HA docs is quite poor in the way it display its info - only saying there is an update and not extending the courtesy by giving more info about the newly released HASS and what it includes in terms of breaking changes, new modules etc

For that I developed an idea by one of the other members of our great HASS community to be able to include the release notes in a sensor and a persistent notification as well

See the linked YAML code for details

And the below pictures for a demonstration of how it looks like in my setup

[ohadbenita]

Wanted to consult with this great community about an improvement I though of making -
Say there’s a new release available in the GitHub repo, but it takes a few hours for the docker image of the corresponing release to be published to docker hub

My idea was to get the list of image tags from the docker hub repo and then check if the released version is one of the tags, any ideas on how to implement it ?

[ohadbenita]

Just a quick update - to solve the issue for Docker users I’ve updated the automation and added another sensor that gets the updated released version from DockerHub and that way no false alarms, the next improvement would be to allow for update from the automation / script that will trigger the upgrade of the docker image and recreation of the container, the updated automation and sensors are updated in the original post