Help with "Notify on HA update available" automation

Configuration
1

Hi,
I’m trying to set up a notification to let me know when HA updates, but it ain’t working and I have no idea why:

- id: '1592672526735'
  alias: Notification (html5_turbojeba) on HA update available
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.updater
    from: 'off'
    platform: state
    to: 'on'
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      message: New version of Home Assistant is available.
      title: HA Update Available.
    service: notify.html5_turbojeba
  mode: single

it never triggers, I only notice the Updater badge changed when HA update is available.

I have also very similar automation set up for HACS updates, which works flawlessly:

- id: '1593348724453'
  alias: Notification (html5_turbojeba) on HACS update
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - above: '0'
    entity_id: sensor.hacs
    for: '600'
    platform: numeric_state
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      message: HACS reports updated repositories available.
      title: HACS Update(s) Available.
    service: notify.html5_turbojeba
  mode: single

Any idea why the 1st one doesn’t work, or how to set the trigger for it so that it does?
Thanks for any insights!

2

Not sure why it doesn’t work, but have a look at my earlier post about how to set up update alerts:

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3

Thanks, I’ll try to adapt your notifications to my environment and see where that gets me, but nonetheless I think the 1st automation should work and wonder why it doesn’t so that I don’t use the same non-triggering trigger in different automation in the future (like I plan to set a notification when UPS status binary sensor goes to “off” etc).

4

I’m using this as a work-around:

Automation

- id: update_available
  alias: 'Update Available'
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: sensor.latest_version
  condition:
    condition: template
    value_template: "{{ states('sensor.latest_version') != states('sensor.installed_version') }}"
  action:
  - service: notify.telegram_system
    data_template:
      title: '*Information*'
      message: "An update for Home Assistant is available. You are running {{states('sensor.installed_version') }}, the latest version is {{ states('sensor.latest_version') }}."

Sensors:

- platform: version
  name: Installed Version
  image: intel-nuc
  source: local

- platform: version
  name: Latest Version
  image: intel-nuc
  source: hassio
5

I have to say I just didn’t have any luck getting this work within HA automation, I created a flow for it in node-red which worked immediately as I got the notify for the 0.113.2 today.

So clearly there’s a bug or something where HA can’t see Updater state is ‘off’, yet the HA node-red palette node can.