New HASS version get Push Notification with Update Now button!

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Update HASS, using shell_commands & HASSCTL to update, check config & restart HASS in a VirtualEnv

There are a few posts explaining how to script the update of HASS, inside a VirtualEnv.
My config: Genestealer/Home-Assistant-Configuration

I wanted to share mine, which sends a push notification with an action button, when pressed will use HASSCTL to update HA, run the config checker and only if it passes restart HA. A log of this script is stored in the same location as the script.
Note: This requires a modification using $sudo visudo

homeassistant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: /bin/systemctl

Also you need to have hassctl installed and setup, so it can update and restart your HA instance.

Steps

  1. Install hassclt:

sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/hassctl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dale3h/hassctl/master/hassctl && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hassctl

  1. Edit hassclt config:

sudo nano /etc/hassctl.conf

Edit hassctl.conf to match your configuration, mine is shown below :

HASSCTL_BRANCH=master
VIRTUAL_ENV=/srv/homeassistant
PIP_EXEC=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip3
HASS_EXEC=$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/hass
HASS_CONFIG=/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant
HASS_USER=homeassistant
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OZW_LOG=$HASS_CONFIG/OZW_Log.txt

HA Automation

automation:
  - alias: Update Available Notification
    # hide_entity: True
    trigger:
      platform: state
      entity_id: updater.updater
    action:
      service: notify.google_cloud_notify
      data_template:
        title: 'New Home Assistant Release'
        message: "Home Assistant {{ states.updater.updater.state }} is now available. {{now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p')}}"
      data:
        data:
          # url: "https://home-assistant.io/blog/" #"{{ states.updater.updater.attributes.release_notes}}"
          actions:
            - action: update
              icon: "/static/icons/update-48x48.png"
              title: Update Home Assistant



  - alias: HTML5 push notification action button clicked
    trigger:
      platform: event
      event_type: html5_notification.clicked
      event_data:
        action: update
    action:
      - service: notify.google_cloud_notify
        data:
          title: 'Home Assistant Update'
          message: 'Update Started'
      - service: shell_command.update_and_restart_hass_with_logging

HA Shell Commands

shell_command:
 - update_and_restart_hass_with_logging: "/bin/bash /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/includes/shell_scripts/update_hass.sh </dev/null >> /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/includes/shell_scripts/update_hass.log 2>&1 &"

Linux Shell Script
update_hassl.sh file stored in /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/includes/shell_scripts/

#!/bin/bash

# This is for log purposes
echo
echo "[$(date)] HA update script starting, using HASSCTL"

# https://github.com/dale3h/hassctl
# Using HASSCTL this script updates HA, runs the config checker and only if it passes restart HA.
# This requires a modification using `sudo visudo`:E.G. "homeassistant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: /bin/systemctl"
# A log of this script is stored in the same location as this script.
# Example of HA shell_command used to call this script: update_and_restart_hass_with_logging: "/bin/bash /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/includes/shell_scripts/update_hass.sh </dev/null >> /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/includes/shell_scripts/update_hass.log 2>&1 &"

hassctl update-hass && hassctl config && hassctl restart
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I guess this won’t work for HASS OS users (there’s no full Linux base, no sudo apt-get etc.)

But maybe this way it‘s possible to at least get notified about new HASS OS version available?