Where did the custom integration update notifications go to?

HAEdwin · April 22, 2025, 11:22am

I remember the good old days where a new release of a custom integration automatically resulted in a persistant notification at the bottom left of the screen. I miss this a lot to be honest.

The manual Settings > System > Updates method is somewhat cumbersome for a system that should provide user convenience.
I probably missed this once in a HA update, does anyone have an explanation for the choice to do it this way?

tom_l · April 22, 2025, 12:21pm

I still get notifications. And when I click on them I’m taken directly to the update install page.

Sir_Goodenough · April 22, 2025, 12:27pm

Hello HAEdwin

If you Installed with the HACS Loader Custom Integration, HACS does this for you. Otherwise the individual CI would have to do ir.

HAEdwin · April 22, 2025, 2:18pm

I guess I’m just impatient, I read it can take up to an hour for the new release to be seen by HACS. I’ll keep an eye on it next time. @Sir_Goodenough Are you referring to HACS.json? I have that file in the root. I haven’t noticed any other requirements besides the manifest file.

HAEdwin · September 28, 2025, 8:55pm

Sorry, I still am missing the update notifications. Am I doing something wrong?

I used to get an immediate notification in the lower left of the dashboard when I drafted a new release. But that must be more than a year ago when that last happened.

Nowadays I can wait for hours before my HA instance is picking it up but only after browsing in HACS. Some users have noticed this too and from what I can tell the versions they are using are sometimes quite outdated.

How can I notify users for newer versions better @ludeeus?

NathanCu · September 28, 2025, 9:05pm

Is your HA instance showing ANY updates? (if you’re on haos or supervised look at the supervisor log to see what’s going on with updates.)

HAEdwin · September 28, 2025, 10:06pm

You mean things like these:

2025-09-28 23:36:09.592 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on /data/addons/git/d5369777 repository from GitHub - music-assistant/home-assistant-addon: Music Assistant add-on (repository) for Home Assistant

2025-09-28 23:36:09.595 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on /data/addons/git/5c53de3b repository from GitHub - esphome/home-assistant-addon: ESPHome Home Assistant Add-on

2025-09-28 23:36:09.597 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on /data/addons/git/a0d7b954 repository from GitHub - hassio-addons/repository: Home Assistant Community Add-ons

2025-09-28 23:36:09.599 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.store.git] Update add-on /data/addons/core repository from GitHub - home-assistant/addons: ➕ Docker add-ons for Home Assistant

HAEdwin · September 29, 2025, 10:11am

From what I understand now is that from HACS 1.29+ the persistent notification was removed and HACS checks roughly once a day for updates or when you open HACS and do something there, mmm… I don’t know if that works fine taken the amount of different versions being used.

I could add a sensor with a persistent notification to the integration but that requires an internet connection, now it is without.

Are there any other options?

HAEdwin · October 7, 2025, 5:54pm

github.com/home-assistant/analytics.home-assistant.io

custom integrations not tracked anymore in analytics?

opened 06:04PM - 01 Oct 25 UTC

HAEdwin

### The problem Any new release of my integration is not noticed anymore by the… users. I still use the same method and HACS rules as before but unless the latest installs where all done manual, the statistics at https://analytics.home-assistant.io/custom_integrations.json doesn't pick up my latest 2.12.0 version of the [apsystems_ecu_reader](https://github.com/HAEdwin/homeassistant-apsystems_ecu_reader) Am I doing something wrong or did anything change? Navigating to HACS makes the integration pup-up as "Pending update". ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2025.9.4 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue https://github.com/HAEdwin/homeassistant-apsystems_ecu_reader ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information NA ### Example YAML snippet ```yaml ``` ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt ``` ### Additional information It has been a while since there came a persistent notification in the lower left corner, almost immediate after drafting a new release. Now you have to go to HACS > update information before the notification pops-up. Issue is that many users don't ever get notified and are still on old releases of the custom integration.