Ignore updates for certain esphome-nodes?

[Kiesel]

Hi,

I have about 15 shellys in my walls that control light switches. They do what they are supposed to do and “just work”.

But I am getting update notifications in Home Assistant and that’s just annoying. I don’t want to risk a botched update and the lights not working as a consequence.

Can I tell Home Assistant to never update (or notify me about updates ) certain esphome devices?

Additionally, since my esphome is running on another machine, is it possible to pin certain devices to a certain esphome-firmware? At the moment I can’t update any esphome devices since I’d first need to update esphome and that means all subsequent changes of my in-wall nodes would be done with the new firmware.

Thanks!

[Edwin_D]

Disable the update entity for that device.

[Kiesel]

Thanks. Where would I find that? There is no such entity in HA (under the device)

[Spiro]

Its firmware . Its usually under configuration

[vincen (Vincèn)]

It’s a long time that trick doesn’t work anymore to prevent HA notifications for ESP devices that needs updates

[Protoncek]

@vincen

It’s a long time that trick doesn’t work anymore

Which trick do you mean? If you disable entity “update.esphomename_built_in_firmware” (or similar named, i have names in slovenian language and i’m translating “by guess”) then it won’t bother you with updates.
You can disable this for all devices in epshome addon’s configuration by disabling this:

It’s odd, though, that you don’t have this entity in esphome device’s page… Even if it’s already disabled it should report “+1 disabled entity”:

(grey last entity means it’s already disabled)

[Kiesel]

My guess is that’s because I am not running esphome in HA, but as a separate docker container?

Do you guys have an “update” button on these warning messages?

[Edwin_D]

@vincen

It’s a long time that trick doesn’t work anymore to prevent HA notifications for ESP devices that needs updates

They definitely work, because I use them to skip updates or install them in automations. They are what trigger the repair notices, and they allow granular control over what ESP’s you wish to ignore (in contrary to the globl option mentioned above). If you don’t have the ESPHome addon things may be different. But then I would not expect you to get HA repairs at all (except for special ones, I’ll get to the one mentioned above later).

Note that HA repairs are not the same as update indications in ESPHome. those are not by HA.

For the scripts that operate on these entities by either skipping updates or installing them, see my answer here:

Auto-Update ESPHome Devices After Add-On Update

Use wisely is an impossible suggestion. You use it and pray it does not break things, or you do not use it and be safe about it. I agree with Herllis81 auto updates on all devices at once is a big risk. Look at yesterdays release notes and see how much changed. It may all work, it may not. What I do is check release notes first. If I feel there’s not much in it for me I skip all update using a script (see below). If they are nice, I try one or two that are lower risk and can alert me to possib…

The repair mentioned by @kiesel above is not a regular update alert, but a specific one to warn you for potential problems with older versions. Ignore those at your own peril.

[Kiesel]

That’s good to know, thanks!

Any way to turn those off? These devices do what I need at the speed that I want. Fiddling with them means potentially having to dig them out of the walls.