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Update Entity

An update entity is an entity that indicates if an update is available for a device or service. This can be any update, including update of a firmware for a device like a light bulb or router, or software updates for things like add-ons or containers.

It can be used for:

  • Providing an indicator if an update is available for a device or service.
  • An install method to allow installing an update or a specific version of the software.
  • Allow for offering backups before installing a new update.

Properties

tip

Properties should always only return information from memory and not do I/O (like network requests). Implement update() or async_update() to fetch data.

NameTypeDefaultDescription
auto_updateboolFalseThe device or service that the entity represents has auto update logic. When this is set to True you can not skip updates.
in_progressbool, intNoneUpdate installation progress. Can either return a boolean (True if in progress, False if not) or an integer to indicate the progress from 0 to 100%.
installed_versionstrNoneThe currently installed and used version of the software.
latest_versionstrNoneThe latest version of the software available.
release_summarystrNoneSummary of the release notes or changelog. This is not suitable for long changelogs but merely suitable for a short excerpt update description of max 255 characters.
release_urlstrNoneURL to the full release notes of the latest version available.
titlestrNoneTitle of the software. This helps to differentiate between the device or entity name versus the title of the software installed.

Other properties that are common to all entities such as device_class, entity_category, icon, name etc are still applicable.

Supported Features

Supported features are defined by using values in the UpdateEntityFeature enum.

ValueDescription
'BACKUP'A backup can be made automatically, before installing an update.
'INSTALL'The update can be installed from Home Assistant.
'PROGRESS'This integration is able to provide progress information. If omitted, Home Assistant will try to provide a progress status; although it is better if the progress can be extracted from the device or service API.
'SPECIFIC_VERSION'A specific version of an update can be installed using the update.install service.
'RELEASE_NOTES'The entity provides methods to fetch a complete changelog.

Methods

Install

This method can be implemented so users can install an offered update directly from within Home Assistant.

This method requires UpdateEntityFeature.INSTALL to be set. Additionally, if this integration supports installing specific version or is capable of backing up before starting the update installation process, UpdateEntityFeature.SPECIFIC_VERSION and UpdateEntityFeature.BACKUP can be set respectively.

class MyUpdate(UpdateEntity):
# Implement one of these methods.

def install(
self, version: str | None, backup: bool, **kwargs: Any
) -> None:
"""Install an update."""

async def async_install(
self, version: str | None, backup: bool, **kwargs: Any
) -> None:
"""Install an update.

Version can be specified to install a specific version. When `None`, the
latest version needs to be installed.

The backup parameter indicates a backup should be taken before
installing the update.
"""

Release notes

This method can be implemented so users can can get the full release notes in the more-info dialog of the Home Assistant Frontend before they install the update.

The returned string can contain markdown, and the frontend will format that correctly.

This method requires UpdateEntityFeature.RELEASE_NOTES to be set.

class MyUpdate(UpdateEntity):
# Implement one of these methods.

def release_notes(self) -> str | None:
"""Return the release notes."""
return "Lorem ipsum"

async def async_release_notes(self) -> str | None:
"""Return the release notes."""
return "Lorem ipsum"

Available device classes

Optionally specifies what type of entity it is.

ConstantDescription
UpdateDeviceClass.FIRMWAREThe update is a firmware update for a device.