Update notifications (Core, OS, Addons, HACS, etc)

[Quacked]

For some time now the ‘Update’ button in the notification only starts updating the addon, but the notification doesn’t disappear and there’s no notification saying ‘Updating’. Then if I hit update again log says ‘no update for Update’ since it’s already updated. Ideas? The Update entities I’ve specified is ‘Home Assistant Core Update’, ‘Home Assistant Operating System Update’ and ‘Home Assistant Supervisor Update’.

[prajuriz]

I cannot select my device in the drop down, here is nothing listed. (but my phone is the only device with the app anyway).
With other automations, I am able to select my phone in the “device” drop down.
Any idea what I could check?

[Yoinkz]

Nice! Looks good and now implemented.
One question and I’m sorry if I missed that somewhere, but is it correct that it doesn’t see section updates under Hacs?

[DieMetRik (Dmitry)]

Thanks autor for this project!!!

A little bit correcting the yaml file of this project

Add a switch, now possible send notification to telegram (telegram must be added to home assistant configuration file)

On telegram looks great:

link on github

[robertalexa (Robert A)]

Hey @CentralCommand

I am still experiencing the above issue, just wondering if you are too (see the reply)

This is my configuration:

alias: Update notifications
description: ""
use_blueprint:
  path: mdegat01/update_notifications.yaml
  input:
    reminder_hours: "6"
    mobile_app_device: c3be379f5150396ba4631fa0ba3991ab
    only_after: "00:00:00"
    only_before: "00:00:00"
    update_entities:
      - update.home_assistant_core_update
      - update.home_assistant_supervisor_update
      - update.appdaemon_update
      - update.home_assistant_google_drive_backup_update
      - update.influxdb_update
      - update.log_viewer_update
      - update.mariadb_update
      - update.mosquitto_broker_update
      - update.node_red_update
      - update.ring_mqtt_with_video_streaming_update
      - update.studio_code_server_update
      - update.tasmoadmin_update
      - update.zigbee2mqtt_update
    status_bar_icon: mdi:home-assistant
    changelog_urls:
      update.appdaemon_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-appdaemon/releases
      update.home_assistant_google_drive_backup_update: https://github.com/sabeechen/hassio-google-drive-backup/releases
      update.influxdb_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-influxdb/releases
      update.log_viewer_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-log-viewer/releases
      update.mariadb_update: >-
        https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/7dab96512c6fca69a33004f75838a90a51efa25c/mariadb/CHANGELOG.md
      update.mosquitto_broker_update: >-
        https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/7dab96512c6fca69a33004f75838a90a51efa25c/mosquitto/CHANGELOG.md
      update.node_red_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-node-red/releases
      update.ring_mqtt_with_video_streaming_update: https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt-ha-addon/blob/bf780e608d7ffcf9f3f14e3ba4e644a3467bd352/CHANGELOG.md
      update.studio_code_server_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-vscode/releases
      update.tasmoadmin_update: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-tasmoadmin/releases
      update.zigbee2mqtt_update: >-
        https://github.com/zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt/blob/1c1dba19f59c7a760198e866a893db21215e5db4/zigbee2mqtt/CHANGELOG.md
    notification_channel: Updates

Any thoughts?
Rob

[giqcass]

This project looks amazing! I installed it and I got an update around 10 minutes later!
I also installed the scheduled updates blueprint. I added a toggle to pause the scheduled updates. When your blueprint notifies me I can now choose to install the update or I can hit the toggle and the updates should install early the next morning. Now I just have to figure out how to interact with the toggle from the notification. When combine the two blueprints create an awesome automation team!

Scheduled auto-update for Home Assistant

[Open your Home Assistant instance and show the blueprint import dialog with a specific blueprint pre-filled.] => The code is now available at Github. Please contribute with your ideas: https://github.com/edwardtfn/HomeAssistant-Config/ I’ve created a new version of my previous Auto-update Home Assistant blueprint, but now based in the new schedule helpers and other improvements. I’m using this blueprint myself. I still think you should understand the benefits and risks of auto-updating, so I…

[Telain]

My automation isn’t sending notices. Getting this error in the automation trace:
UndefinedError: No first item, sequence was empty.

It seemed like that was related to the global check every X hours, so I disabled that. It was failing on my Unifi AP that has an update entity.

Now the trace just falls through to the bottom with no actions taken.

There is a pending update that I confirmed is in the monitored list. I went and made it the only item in the list, but no change.

auto_update: false
installed_version: v2.3.1
in_progress: false
latest_version: v2.4.0
release_summary: null
release_url: https://github.com/artem-sedykh/mini-climate-card/releases/v2.4.0
skipped_version: null
title: null
friendly_name: mini climate card update
supported_features: 21

[joshward9182 (Joshua Ward-Wheeler)]

@Quacked I am having this same issue.
The update is actually performing but it is not clearing the notification.

Having a quick look, I could not find the issue.
I am running HA Container, so this is only really for HACS updates.

Did you find a solution?

Or has anyone else had the same problem?

[Quacked]

Haven’t found a solution, no.

[stefanroelofs (Stefan)]

If it helps, I see the following error messages in my log:

2022-11-10 03:00:00.015 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Template variable warning: No first item, sequence was empty. when rendering '{{ device_attr(entity_id, 'identifiers') | first }}'
2022-11-10 03:00:00.018 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.notification_for_updates] notification_for_updates: Choose at step 1: Send reminders if enabled: Loop over updates and send reminder: Error executing script. Error rendering template for variables at pos 2: UndefinedError: No first item, sequence was empty.
2022-11-10 03:00:00.019 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.notification_for_updates] notification_for_updates: Choose at step 1: Send reminders if enabled: Error executing script. Error rendering template for repeat at pos 2: UndefinedError: No first item, sequence was empty.
2022-11-10 03:00:00.021 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.notification_for_updates] notification_for_updates: Error executing script. Error rendering template for choose at pos 1: UndefinedError: No first item, sequence was empty.
2022-11-10 03:00:00.022 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation.notification_for_updates] Error while executing automation automation.notification_for_updates: UndefinedError: No first item, sequence was empty.

[joshward9182 (Joshua Ward-Wheeler)]

Finally had a chance to look in to it a bit more…

I noticed it only auto-clears the notification for the update entities that are explicitly listed, not any of them.

I’ve just listed them all and seems to work ok now.

[Tazmanian79 (Yves Soers)]

I have the following error in my system logs:

2022-11-17 08:45:34.258 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation] Blueprint Update notifications generated invalid automation with inputs OrderedDict([('reminder_hours', '6'), ('update_entities', ['update.access_point_garage', 'update.access_point_living', 'update.access_point_slaapkamer', 'update.afvalbeheer_update', 'update.anniversaries_update', 'update.auto_backup_update', 'update.daikin_residential_controller_update', 'update.garmin_connect_update', 'update.hacs_update', 'update.mini_media_player_update', 'update.soers_network', 'update.sonos_cloud_update', 'update.switch_24_garage', 'update.switch_8_garage', 'update.switch_8_garage_camnet', 'update.switch_8_living', 'update.thuis_nas01_dsm_update', 'update.toon_smart_meter_update', 'update.tesla_update', 'update.mister_t_software_update', 'update']), ('mobile_app_device', 'f1e469f41a3ad819a0b437bcb88b7d9d'), ('take_backup', False), ('run_config_check', True), ('only_after', '08:00:00'), ('only_before', '20:00:00')]): Entity update is neither a valid entity ID nor a valid UUID for dictionary value @ data['entity_id']. Got None

[joshward9182 (Joshua Ward-Wheeler)]

@CentralCommand
The blueprint doesn’t change the notification to “updating…” for HACS updates.

This is because the in_progress attribute changes to a number (% done), rather than true. A simple fix is done by making the following changes under the ‘started’ trigger:

To confirm, I have tested this and it works.
Let me know if this was already considered and I have tried to enhance a conscious decision.

[sammyke007 (Sammy Verdonck)]

@joshward9182 What’s the easiest way to implement this fix? Fork it and use your own fork as blueprint?

@CentralCommand any reason the fix isn’t used in your BP?

[joshward9182 (Joshua Ward-Wheeler)]

The easiest way is probably to install the blueprint as it is and manually edit the yaml file in your config folder.
It’s in /config/blueprints/automation/jcwillox/automatic_backups.yaml

[sammyke007 (Sammy Verdonck)]

Tnx, I’ve forked it and added “my version” / the updated one as a BP. Will test it!

[Tismo]

@CentralCommand . Thank you for the great blueprint. I have a question. I receive the update notification in HA under notification panel but I never receive push notification on my phone.
I am using the companion app on IOS 16. I also checked my device id and its correct.
any ideas why I am not getting push notification to my phone even though I am connected locally.
I also dont have any errors under the automation trace

[CentralCommand (Mike)]

Think you might be hitting this:

Notifications to iphones stopped working today morning (no update or restart)

Hi there, I’m using HA for more near 3 years, lots and lots of automations in nodered and hundreds of entities in HA (lots of zigbee and wifi devices, smart tv, etc) and i beleive i know “something” about HA and debugging problems but i’m now without anything to go on for fixing this problem. The last notification i have on my phone was in the morning. I updated my phone to 16.2 and even thought that was the problem but tested with other older iphone with the same problem. Updated for 2023.01…

Is it just the update notifications you aren’t receiving or all of them?

[SmartKyle (Kyle)]

Feature Request: Be able to schedule an update for a time in the future. I would like to update my stuff over night when I’m sleeping.

[CentralCommand (Mike)]

You’re on the wrong thread, you want this blueprint:

Auto-update Home Assistant

I’ve created a new blueprint, this time to use the new schedule helper. Please take a look here: Scheduled auto-update for Home Assistant - Blueprints Exchange - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io) I haven’t changed this one to not mess up with existing implementations, so if you want to use that new one, create a new automation based on that one and remove your previous automation based on the old blueprint. ======================================================= So, I finally got…

This blueprint is for people that want to manually update after they read the release notes and review the breaking changes. Since there’s some in every release.