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Update policy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 12 hours ago by oz1sej@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I used to just update stuff when I could see an update was available. This changed dramatically when a few months ago, I updated Zigbee2mqtt to version 2 and my whole house stopped working. That marked the moment when the other inhabitants in my house decided that the home automation project had gone too far.

Since then, when I saw an update was available, I've waited - preferably until I had seen other people reporting that stuff still worked. But now I've realised, that if I wait too long with an update, another update just comes along...

Can I somehow configure HA to always automatically install e.g. update 2.1.3 once update 2.1.4 becomes available? Or is that a nogo too? I realise that the only sure-fire way to do this is with a staging environment, where everything is tested out before updating the production environment. But how many of us has that kind of a setup?

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[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

2.1.4 is fixing things in 2.1.3 and when those broken things effect you because you decided to install a known buggy version, then you'll shift the complaint that it shouldn't have let you install the broken one that would have effected you.

Pay attention to the update notes and let the system take backups, that'll cover you 99% of the time.

I had something similar happen with a Node-Red update a few years ago and I stopped allowing automatic updates and started reading the notes and being proactive about my updates and have had zero issues since because I ensure my system is ready for the updates first.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 6 points 10 hours ago

I have a baby at home and that makes it impossible to keep up with all the updates. Reading the release notes? God damn, I'm glad I have the time hit the update button once a month and then pray to god that it doesn't break anything. If it does then it'll take months before I have time to investigate.

This led me to abonden HA from the summer house already. My dad's HA has been turned off for three months too because I just can't find the time to fix it, and at home it's running but I have only one type of ZigBee things still working, other things are just broken like my script showing random pictures on the TV.

I really wish for a LTS version. I don't have those problems on my Server where I run Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.