How to upgrade the frontend of HACS?

Third party integrations
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I use HACS for years now and by comparing my setup with the one of a friend I saw that they are drastically different.

After some head scraping I discovered that my frontend is 20220906112053 when his is 2024.... The core is up-to-date (1.34.0) and I upgrade everything as soon as there is a new version.

How come my frontend is so much behind in that case, and more importantly: how to update it?

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Frontend is part of the HA Core and not part of HACS.
You need to update your HA Core.

What HA installation do you have?

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Ah. I run core 2024.2.2 and frontend 20240207.1. This is the information from Settings | About.

The one in my question is from HACS | About

I noticed that my HACS displays tiles and his - a list. In itself this did not matter but I am worried about the version down by HACS.

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That sounds better. :slight_smile:

The difference in the frontend might be to customizations.
You can choose different cards with different features.
Some contributors have made iPhone like versions of many cards, called mushroom.

There are other variants too.

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You mean that by adding frontend cards I may have influenced the way HACS looks?

I do build my own dashboards and install card types - but never configured the way HA looks on its own (what I am trying to say is that I use HACS out of the box without any configurations)

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Ahh, it is only HACS that looks different?

HACS have a setting somewhere to activate experimental feature and one of those is a new GUI layout that is being developed.

HACS is just an integration, so look in Settings → Devices & Services → Integrations → HACS

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“Experimental features” is the new “V2” interface coming soon. Most people get click happy checking off all the “I understand HACS has no add-ons” check boxes at the end of the installation process and click the enable experimental features one too. That is why your friend has a different interface.

You can enable it too if you want:

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I tried that in the past but there is no difference in how HACS looks like. This is what I have:

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(I also restarted HA just in case)

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Well, HACS look like that:

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Yes, I tried that but it did not change anything.

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Did you restart HA ?

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yes, I restart HA everytime there is a new version (major or minor). This 2022... version shown by HACS is really old, everything else being up to date (HA, HACS an the integrations)

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The new repositories come up at times, but it is not always.
I have not yet found a schedule for when it happens and it seems somewhat irregular at the moment.
And a restart of HA seems to remove them again.
Maybe it is just some extra info it retrieve when it got some bandwidth available.

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I still have the same version as you, but never tried experimental features.

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Could’ve just used the search. HACS problem - Different interface? - #20 by Akore

  1. Enable experimental features for HACS
  2. Restart HA
  3. Open HACS tab
  4. Open dev console (F12), right click the refresh button and choose “empty cache and hard refresh”
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Experimental features button for HACS give you:

  • A much better search function
  • You no longer have to read pages & pages of offering git repo ‘ads’ to find something
  • Better visibility on the offerings you have selected and what is available
  • Access to the custom template offerings not available in the old interface
  • An easy reload button for the offerings if you think something has gone wonky with them
  • The updates show up in HA with all the OS and addon updates so you know there is a thing to do with your offering

In addition, when the V2 version is released, you will be able to help your navigationally challenged friends figure out what happened.

Why do I actually care, well, I have some custom templates in the store and am excited to have more people see them beyond my tag line below…

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Thank you for the solution. The HACS reported frontend is now 20240119163101

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I just wanted to add a little clarity to this in case others come looking since HACS 1.34 using a frontend version from 2022 might seem like you’re not getting updates.

I was quite confused as well, even so much as the Git changelog for 1.34 mentions updating the frontend to 20240113104905. However, what I didn’t notice at first was that the commit only changed the experimental frontend version. It’s pretty much clear as day when you look at the commit what’s happening: Bump frontend to 20240113104905 (#3450) · hacs/integration@fa5af7e (github.com).

The current non-experimental front-end is still version locked to 20220906112053.

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Anyone know where to find information about when the experimental frontend will become the default? Is there maybe a project tracker related to this somewhere?

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Bump frontend to 20240528140736 by ludeeus · Pull Request #3733 · hacs/integration (github.com)

They just bumped the main (non-experimental) frontend to 20240528140736 on May 29th.

(edit - mixing projects up; thought HACS would release when HA did. No idea if HACS has scheduled releases… so it’s coming, but no idea when)

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