Update notification - automation not working

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Hi, can someone share working update notification? I have many of them, but no one is working…

- id: update_available_notification
  alias: "Update Available Notification"
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    platform: template
    value_template: "{{states('sensor.pypi_hass_version') == states('sensor.current_version') }}"
  action:
    - service: notify.ios_idedek82work
      data:
        message: "HomeAssistant {{ states('sensor.pypi_hass_version') }} is now available"
        title: "Update HASS"
    - service: notify.notify
      data:
        message: "HomeAssistant {{ states('sensor.pypi_hass_version') }} is now available"
        title: "Update HASS"

- id: update_available_notification_2
  alias: 'Update Available Notification 2'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: updater.updater
  action:
    service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: 'Update for Home Assistant is available.'
  
- id: update_available_notification_3
  alias: 'Update Available Notification 3'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: updater.updater
  action:
    service: notify.ios_idedek82work
    data:
      message: 'Update for Home Assistant is available.'
  
- id: update_available_notification_4
  alias: "Update available notification 4"
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: updater.updater
  condition: []
  action:
    service: notify.ios_idedek82work
    data:
      message: "Update for Home Assistant is available."
2

If you learn how to format your code properly, i will show you one. :slightly_smiling_face:

3

I´m sorry, already edited. Hope it´s right now…

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4

Yeah, looks much better!
Here is the sensor and automation i use.

sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('https://pypi.org/simple/homeassistant').text.split('homeassistant-')[-1].split('.tar')[0])"
    name: Latest HA Version
    scan_interval: 3600

automation:
  - alias: Update notification
    initial_state: True
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: sensor.latest_ha_version
    action:
      - service: notify.iphone
        data_template: 
          title: "New Home Assistant Release"
          message: "Home Assistant {{ states.sensor.latest_ha_version.state }} is now available."
      - service: persistent_notification.create
        data_template:
          title: "New Home Assistant Release"
          message: "Home Assistant {{ states.sensor.latest_ha_version.state }} is now available."

This will also send notification on beta updates.

Your entity_id: updater.updater automations will probably work, but the updater in HA runs only once per day.

BTW, you can simply test it if you go to Dev Tools/states, klick the sensor.latest_ha_version, change the state to any other value and klick ‘SET STATE’.

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5

Thank you very much!

6

Can I use your topic to try to solve my problem?

I have the following automation that should send me a message and create a persisent notification. However, it only works sometimes. I mean, it already worked but in the last update didnt work. Reading the topic someone mentioned something about beta update, is this the problem?

- alias: Update Available Notifications
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    platform: state
    entity_id: updater.updater
  action:
    - service: persistent_notification.create
      data_template:
        title: "Atualização do Sistema"
        message: "Uma atualização do Home Assistant está disponível (Versão {{ states('updater.updater') }})."
      data:
        data:
          url: "/hassio/dashboard"
        
    - service: notify.html5
      data_template:
        title: "Atualização do Sistema"
        message: "Uma atualização do Home Assistant está disponível (Versão {{ states('updater.updater') }})."
      data:
        data:
          url: "/hassio/dashboard"