OLD - Home assistant - Update sensors and Update notifications
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Keeping your system up to date is important, but nobody is going to manually check that on a regular base.
In this video, we add some sensors with update status to our dashboard, and put persistent notifications when updates are available for Home Assistant or HACS. Note: The add-ons we can put on auto-update, so no need to monitor those.
Most automation code is copied from the sites.
The HACS code is using a persistent notification already, so that is unchanged.
The Home Assistant Update code however uses the notify service. Since there are so many notification platforms available, and everyone has his own preference, I decided not to use it for this series. So, for the Home Assistant Update, I changed the service from notify.notify to persistent_notification.create, and also added a title.
However, if you set up a notification service, it is easy to swap between the two.
Links:
Home Assistant updater: https://www.home-assistant.io/integra...
HACS automations: https://hacs.xyz/docs/basic/automation
Install Home Assistant on Ubuntu with Docker: • OLD - Home Assistant - Install on ubu...
Install HACS: • OLD - Home Assistant - HACS
Install Visual Studio Code: • OLD - Home Assistant - Addon: Visual ...
Take control of the lovelace interface: • OLD - Home Assistant - Take control o...
Update Home Assistant: • OLD - Home Assistant - Update