Version integration upgrade indicator

Configuration
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The “Version” integration provides a binary sensor indicating that an upgrade is available, which is useful. It would be more useful (to me, anyway) if it provided two such sensors, one indicating a minor upgrade is available and one indicating a major upgrade is available. If I’m on 2024.10.1 I’m generally less interested in the availability of 2024.10.2 than I am in 2024.11.0. I’d like to put an “upgrade available” badge on my initial dashboard, but the current one is almost always true for me as I don’t keep up with minor upgrades.

Would this be useful for anyone else, or just me?

(Maybe it wouldn’t be hard to build this as a template senor? Hmmm…)

Steve.

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To answer my own question from just a few minutes ago, it is indeed not hard to create a template helper:

{{ states(“sensor.current_version”)[:-1] == states(“sensor.home_assistant_versions”)[:-1] }}

This works so long as the minor version is only one digit, which it always has been so far I think.