"Update All" question?

[stevemann (Stephen Mann (YAML-challenged))]

I have 48 ESPHome devices, and some are offline for various reasons. When I do an “Update All” the offline device binaries are compiled, but the “update all” log shows an IP error.

Now, those offline devices do not show that they need to be updated. But they were offline and couldn’t be updated. So, what happened to the binary file? Shouldn’t the device still show “Update Available”.

[mulcmu]

The dashboard doesn’t query the installed version from the device, it just checks if the last build version matches the esphome addon version.

ESPHome updates – is an update validity check in place?

The “Update flag” is set based on the ESPHome-version tag in the .esphome/<device_name>.yaml.json file and the current ESPHome version of the AddOn. This json file is generated by every new “Compile/Install/Update” as part of the C++ code generation action. So even when you stop the “Update” action just after the “compiling of…” message you will see that the “update flag” disappears. There is no “functional” check at all. You have to check the release notes to judge if an update is really needed…