Home Assistant has its own Persistent Notifications. It would be great if information about available Home Assistant / Supervisor / Operating System updates was displayed in the notification drawer in web UI.
Don’t forget your own vote
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There is a sensor for Home Assistant updates. It’s up to you to automate it. Not everyone may want alerts bugging them about this.
If you want a sensor that updates more than once a day:
sensors:
- platform: version
name: Installed Version
image: intel-nuc # change for your system, see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/version/
source: local
- platform: version
name: Latest Version
image: intel-nuc # change for your system, see https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/version/
source: hassio
automation:
- alias: 'Update Available'
trigger:
platform: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.latest_version') != states('sensor.installed_version') }}"
action:
service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "An update for Home Assistant is available. You are running {{states('sensor.installed_version') }}, the latest version is {{ states('sensor.latest_version') }}."
An OS update sensor would negate the need for adding this (so you get my vote):
sensors:
- platform: command_line
name: HassOS Installed Version
command: 'curl http://supervisor/host/info -H "Authorization: Bearer $(printenv SUPERVISOR_TOKEN)"|jq ''{"hassos":.data.operating_system}'''
value_template: "{{ value_json.hassos[7:] }}"
- platform: rest
resource: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hassio-version/stable.json
name: HassOS Latest Version
value_template: '{{ value_json.hassos["intel-nuc"] }}'
scan_interval: 3600
automation:
- alias: 'HassOS Update Available'
trigger:
platform: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.hassos_installed_version') != states('sensor.hassos_latest_version') }}"
action:
- service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "Update for HassOS available, from v{{ states('sensor.hassos_installed_version') }} to v{{ states('sensor.hassos_latest_version') }}"
Sensors for the supervisor aren’t needed as this updates automatically whether or not you think this is a good thing. However if you want it now (or this WTH does not get a PR):
sensors:
- platform: template
sensors:
supervisor_installed_version:
friendly_name: "Supervisor Installed Verion"
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.supervisor_updates', 'current_version') }}"
supervisor_latest_version:
friendly_name: "Supervisor Latest Verion"
value_template: "{{ state_attr('sensor.supervisor_updates', 'newest_version') }}"
automation:
- alias: 'Supervisor Update Available'
trigger:
platform: template
value_template: "{{ states('sensor.supervisor_installed_version') != states('sensor.supervisor_latest_version') }}"
action:
- service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "Update for Supervisor available, from v{{ states('sensor.supervisor_installed_version') }} to v{{ states('sensor.supervisor_latest_version') }}"
Also, just for completeness:
HACS notification:
- alias: 'HACS Update Available'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: sensor.hacs
condition:
condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.hacs
above: 0
action:
- service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "Update for {{ state_attr('sensor.hacs','repositories')|map(attribute='display_name')|list|join(', ') }} available."
Addon notification:
- alias: 'Addon Update Available'
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: sensor.supervisor_updates
condition:
condition: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.supervisor_updates
above: 0
action:
- service: notify.telegram_system
data_template:
title: '*Information*'
message: "{{ states('sensor.supervisor_updates') }} Addon update(s) available."
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You can of course use automation for this. But in my opinion, this is standard functionality that should work out of the box. An automation platform should make our life easier, not complicate it, right?
For sure which is why I also said:
how do you create the sensor.supervisor_updates ?
Does this sensor also show the individual add-ons that have an update?
Sorry, I missed that one:
- platform: command_line
name: Supervisor updates
command: 'curl http://supervisor/supervisor/info -H "Authorization: Bearer $(printenv SUPERVISOR_TOKEN)"|jq ''{"newest_version":.data.version_latest,"current_version":.data.version,"addons":[.data.addons[]|select(.version != .installed)]}'''
value_template: "{{ value_json.addons|length }}"
json_attributes:
- newest_version
- current_version
- addons
haha, no worries 
can I do this in Hassio OS too?
'curl http://supervisor/supervisor/info -H "Authorization: Bearer $(printenv SUPERVISOR_TOKEN)"|jq ''{"newest_version":.data.version_latest,"current_version":.data.version,"addons":[.data.addons[]|select(.version != .installed)]}'''
thinking of the authorization here especially.
using a rest sensor myself with authorization like this:
- platform: rest
name: Hassio Rpi4 config
resource: !secret resource_hassio_rpi4_config
value_template: > #components|list|count}}
{{value_json.version}}
json_attributes:
- components
- unit_system
- config_dir
headers:
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: !secret api_bearer_token
User-Agent: Home Assistant REST sensor
scan_interval: 3600
could that be done for the supervisor sensor too maybe? Trying this:
- platform: rest
name: Hassio Supervisor Updates
resource: http://supervisor/supervisor/info
value_template: >
{{value_json.addons|length}}
json_attributes:
- newest_version
- current_version
- addons
headers:
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: !secret api_bearer_token
User-Agent: Home Assistant REST sensor
scan_interval: 3600
without success yet. Is the url correct? in the Config Rest sensor I need to point to https://mydomain.duckdns.org:port/api/config
when I enter http://supervisor/supervisor/info this seems incorrect?
Maybe the version platform can be modified to include an additional parameter to specify what info we want: Home Assistant, Supervisor, or Operating System.
WDYT?
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Running on Home Assistant OS the following rest sensor works for me. The addons attribute gets fully populated.
platform: rest
name: addons
resource: http://127.0.0.1:8123/api/hassio/supervisor/info
value_template: '{{ value_json.data.addons|count }}'
scan_interval: 1800 # 60 seconds * 30 minutes = 1/2 hour worth of seconds
headers:
Authorization: !secret rest_token
Content-Type: application/json
json_attributes_path: "$.data"
json_attributes:
- addons
Then a template sensor I call sensor.addon_updates to count the number of addons with update_available == True. As a bonus this sensor also lists the
platform: template
sensors:
addon_updates:
friendly_name: Addon Updates
icon_template: mdi:counter
value_template: '{{ state_attr("sensor.addons","addons") | selectattr("update_available","eq",True) | map(attribute="name") | list | count }}'
attribute_templates:
addons: '{{ state_attr("sensor.addons","addons") | selectattr("update_available","eq",True) | map(attribute="name") | list }}'
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Thanks for this, noticed that
Was slightly off and need pushing a few characters right to get the version number, so had a dig around and stumbled on this which serves up both current an latest version for the OS - however suspect this is constrained to the once a day update that you were trying to overcome!
- platform: command_line
name: os
command: 'curl http://supervisor/os/info -H "Authorization: Bearer $(printenv SUPERVISOR_TOKEN)" | jq ''{"newest_version":.data.version_latest,"current_version":.data.version}'''
value_template: "{{ value_json.newest_version }}"
json_attributes:
- newest_version
- current_version
Anyway, thanks for the post - helpful!
Got my dashboard nearly to my liking 
I updated it here:
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Hi,
I have been using this for some time to detected when an update is available. As of 2021.7 it has changed and the sensor.latest_available_version does not contain the point release therefore comparison not possible.
Does anybody know a better way to trigger an alert for an update notification?
sensor.latest_available_version = 2021.7
sensor.installed_version = 2021.7.1
update_available:
value_template: '{{ states.sensor.installed_version.state != states.sensor.latest_available_version.state }}'
The supervisor integration has binary sensors for that.
No, that integration only contains update sensors for Home Assistant OS and addons, not the core version.
Ups, my mistake, again 
Try this instead:
Thanks, worked a treat!
I’ve tried this (basically a copy of the code that @tom_l linked to above) and it didn’t trigger for me.
Can anyone see anything wrong that I’ve screwed up?
Putting the template into the developer tools tab correctly gave True when the update was available to be done. The sensors read correctly as 2021.7.1 and 2021.7.2 for current and latest (with appropriate attributes too).
alias: HASS Core Update
description: Notify if Core update is available
trigger:
- platform: template
value_template: >-
{{ states('sensor.latest_core_version') !=
states('sensor.current_core_version') }}
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_darrens_iphone_11
data:
message: >-
Core update from {{ states('sensor.current_core_version') }} to {{
states('sensor.latest_core-version') }} available
- service: mqtt.publish
data:
topic: scrollpi/messages
payload: s/Core update to {{ states('sensor.latest_core_version') }} available
- service: notify.persistent_notification
data:
message: >-
Core update from {{ states('sensor.current_core_version') }} to {{
states('sensor.latest_core_version') }} available
mode: single
The trigger needs to go from false to true. If it is already true after restarting it wont trigger. You’ll get it next time.
You could add a home assistant start event trigger as well, and a template condition, but that means you will get an alert every time you restart and there is an update available.
Just update and wait for the next one.