No update entity for my ESPhome devices

[brenard]

Hello,

I have some ESPhome devices in my home, connected to my HA instance using the esphome integration and all works great, but I haven’t their update entity. After some search, I didn’t find how to have them. There is special thing to do for that ?

Thanks !

[indeeed]

HA install type, logs, yamls, anything?

@brenard

There is special thing to do for that ?

HaOS + ESPHome Add-On should be sufficient by default

[brenard]

Install with docker stable image (up-to-date) on Raspberry Pi 4 running on Debian. No yaml configuration relative to esphome integration. I will check the logs but I pretty sure to never see something relative in it. Esphome is deported on another machine on Debian 12 (with more resources to build firmwares) and is installed using pip in virtualenv.

When not using HAOS and the ESPhome add-on, their is special things to do to to get the update entities?

Thanks

[indeeed]

@brenard

When not using HAOS and the ESPhome add-on

Don’t think so.

The esphome dashboard integration is the communication interface between the add-on and HA which tells about the latest esphome (dashboard) version installed so HA can check if all nodes are up 2 date.

But if you try the search engine some user actually rebuild that function not long ago for non add-on installs…

I tried the search for you and this was the first result:

ESPHome update notifications

Hey there, do you know whether all your ESPHome-devices are up to date? I had struggles with that and always needed to check the latest ESPHome-version on their website - and to be honest: I didn’t do it very often. That was the reason for me to automate these steps and as I guess you have similar issues so I am happy to share my setup with everyone So let’s get it started! 1. ESPHome: Add version sensor to ESPHome-devices To be able to determine the latest version of your ES…

[brenard]

@indeeed

Don’t think so.

The esphome dashboard integration is the communication interface between the add-on and HA which tells about the latest esphome (dashboard) version installed so HA can check if all nodes are up 2 date.

Yes, you 're right: I finally analysed the code of the esphome integration (I don’t find an esphome dashboard integration) and currently, the only way to configure the link with the esphome dashboard is when it’s automatically discovered by the supervisor service.

I not sure this integration couldn’t works with an externally installed ESPhome dashboard, so I will try to patch the esphome integration to allow setting the link with the dashboard by using another way.

@indeeed

I tried the search for you and this was the first result:

Yes, I already have this type of information and notification in my HA, but I would love to have the way to trigger update from HA

[mathmaniac43 (Nick)]

I am running HA Core and ESPHome separately in Docker containers and had the same question. I would love to see this become available soon!