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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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[–] 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.