Is updater not working for anyone else lately? Haven't gotten notifications for the last few updates

MediaCowboy · July 4, 2017, 3:28am

What is your notify.notify? For example I had to change it to notify.pushover to make it work. I then had to configure pushover.

jono · July 4, 2017, 4:20am

It hasn’t shown an update notification for me for quite a while.

I think I’ll also try one of the alternatives above.

anon43302295 · July 4, 2017, 7:37am

That’s what I will be doing.

wakeskate · July 4, 2017, 10:49pm

If you are running HASSbian image use sensors below

  - platform: command_line
    command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.pyth$
    name: Current HA Version

  - platform: command_line
    name: Installed version
    command: "head -5 /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/.HA_VERSION"

scottocs · July 25, 2017, 3:54pm

You didn’t paste the whole command for the Current HA Version:

python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"

MediaCowboy · August 7, 2017, 2:04pm

Okay, so have I modified what @forbin posted to look at this. I have two files one for the sensors and one for the automation. As I am still kinda of new to creating my own automation’s will this work or do I need to trigger the update with a time some how?

hass_update.yaml

##################################################################
### Current HASS Version
###################################################################
- platform: command_line
  command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"
  name: HASS - Current Version

##################################################################
### Installed HASS Version
###################################################################
- platform: command_line
  name: HASS - Installed version
  command: "head -5 /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/.HA_VERSION"

##################################################################
### HASS comparison 
###################################################################
- platform: template
  sensors:
    hass_update_available:
      friendly_name: 'HASS Update Available'
      value_template: >-
        {%- if states.sensor.current_hass_version.state != states.sensor.installed_hass_version.state -%}
           Yes
        {%- else -%}
           No
        {%- endif -%}

update_available.yaml

- alias: Update Available 
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.hass_update_available
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: sensor.hass_update_available
      state: 'Yes'
  action:
    service: notify.pushover
    data_template: 
      title: 'New Home Assistant Release'
      message: "Home Assistant {{ states.sensor.current_hass_version.state }} is now available"

fanaticDavid · August 7, 2017, 2:29pm

You’re making it unnecessarily complicated. Try this:

hass_update.yaml

- platform: command_line
  name: HASS Current Version
  command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"

- platform: command_line
  name: HASS Installed version
  command: "head -5 /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/.HA_VERSION"

update_available.yaml

- alias: Update Available 
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.hass_current_version
  condition:
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{ states.hass_current_version.state != states.hass_installed_version.state }}'
  action:
    service: notify.pushover
    data_template: 
      title: 'New Home Assistant Release'
      message: "Home Assistant {{ states.sensor.hass_current_version.state }} is now available"

Oliviakrk · October 11, 2017, 6:22pm

Hi

Is updater broken again? The out of the box notification worked for a while, and then again stooped.

berniebl · October 12, 2017, 1:22am

@fanaticDave I am looking at your notification to pushover in the update_available.yaml.
Maybe I am missing something, but I would think that this would constantly send messages until you upgrade to the new version. Can you help me understand what would only make this fire once?

fanaticDavid · October 12, 2017, 1:39am

The notification is only sent when the state of sensor.hass_current_version changes. That is how the trigger works.

n8henrie · October 13, 2017, 8:12pm

@berniebl – updater stopped working for me as well (why I sought out this thread). Glad to see I’m not the only one. Currently on 0.53.0.

Currently tinkering in the dev template tool not having any luck:

{{ states("updater.updater") }} -> unknown
{{ states ("sensor.updater.updater") }} -> unknown
{{ states("sensor.hass_current_version") }} -> unknown
{{ states.hass_current_version.state }} -> None
{{ states.sensor.hass_current_version.state }} -> (blank)

Vlad · October 23, 2017, 1:52am

updater stopped working for me as well (why I sought out this thread). Glad to see I’m not the only one. Currently on 0.55.1.

{{ states("updater.updater") }} -> unknown

{{ states ("sensor.updater.updater") }} -> unknown

{{ states("sensor.hass_current_version") }} -> unknown

{{ states.hass_current_version.state }} -> None

{{ states.sensor.hass_current_version.state }} -> (blank)

fanaticDavid · October 23, 2017, 12:48pm

Just to be clear: the only entity that Home Assistant provides (or should provide) without any configuration is updater.updater. I see you guys testing the entity sensor.hass_current_version but you have to add this sensor yourselves with the code in my previous post, a few posts up from here.

jono · November 3, 2017, 12:38pm

I was using MediaCowboy/fanaticDavid’s scripts, but don’t work anymore.

Do the scripts need updating or is the problem with Home Assistant, and they can’t be fixed at the moment?

VDRainer · November 3, 2017, 1:00pm

python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"

returns 0.56.2 at the moment, so everything should work.

jono · November 3, 2017, 1:36pm

Do you mean you have this sensor in your HA instance

- platform: command_line
  name: HASS Current Version
  command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"

Or you ran that line of code from somewhere else?

I have that sensor running in HA and it just shows ‘unknown’. The one for ‘Installed Version’ works OK though, and shows the version I have.

VDRainer · November 3, 2017, 1:42pm

Yes, exactly the same.
Also running the command in a terminal with venv activated.
Python 3.5.2

jono · November 3, 2017, 2:05pm

Strange, it works OK running the command in Terminal in the venv, but shows ‘unknown’ in Home Assistant

fanaticDavid · November 3, 2017, 5:45pm

In my personal setup, I use the following rest sensor to retrieve the available version of Home Assistant (and it still works):

- platform: rest
  name: "HA available version"
  resource: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json
  value_template: '{{ value_json.info.version }}'
  scan_interval: 3600

Bob_NL · November 3, 2017, 5:47pm

This works fine for me:
Sensor:

  - platform: command_line
    name: HASS Current Version
    command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.python.org/pypi/homeassistant/json').json()['info']['version'])"

Automation:

- alias: 'Update Available' 
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.hass_current_version
  action:
    service: notify.telegram
    data_template: 
      title: "Home Assistant v{{ states.sensor.hass_current_version.state }} is now available"
      message: "Release notes: {{ states.updater.updater.attributes.release_notes }}"