Smart_Home_Briefing/pending updates.md

Home Assistant Pending Updates Announcement

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I also wanted The Briefing to announce if there's any pending Home Assistant updates to be installed, but I want to limit it down to only the Home Assistant Core, Home Assistant OS, and ESPHome.

So I came up with the following Template

In hindsight, I should probably put this into a for loop. I'll do that for version 2 maybe....

The Template

{% if states('update.home_assistant_operating_system_update') == 'on' %}
There's a Home Assistant O S Update pending. 
The Installed version is {{ state_attr('update.home_assistant_operating_system_update', 'installed_version') }} 
The Available version is {{ state_attr('update.home_assistant_operating_system_update', 'latest_version') }} 
{% endif %}

{% if states('update.home_assistant_core_update') == 'on' %}
There's a Home Assistant Core Update pending. 
The Installed version is {{ state_attr('update.home_assistant_core_update', 'installed_version') }} 
The Available version is {{ state_attr('update.home_assistant_core_update', 'latest_version') }} 
{% endif %}

{% if states('update.esphome_update') == 'on' %} 
There's an E S P Home Update pending. 
The Installed version is {{ state_attr('update.esphome_update', 'installed_version') }} 
The Available version is {{ state_attr('update.esphome_update', 'latest_version') }} 
{% endif %}

A Better Way

Let's try doing this with an Array instead

{% set entities = {
    # A List of Dictionaries
    # The Dictionary Key is the `entity_id` in Home Assistant
    # the Dictionary Value is what we want our Text to Speech engine to call it.
    
    'update.home_assistant_operating_system_update': 'Home Assistant OS',
    'update.home_assistant_core_update': 'Home Assistant Core',
    'update.esphome_update': 'E S P Home',

} %}

{% for entity, name in entities.items() %}
  {% if states(entity) == 'on' %}
  There's a {{ name }} update pending. 
  The Installed version is {{ state_attr( entity, 'installed_version') }} 
  The Available version is {{ state_attr(entity, 'latest_version') }} 
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

This way, we can easily add or remove "Update" entity dictionaries to the entities array.
The entity_id is the "Key" of the dictionary, and we put a "Text to Speech" Compatible name in the Value.

The Home Assistant Script

Here's the script I put into my scripts.yaml or you can just paste it into the Home Assistant UI when editing the script in YAML mode.

alias: Announce Pending Updates
sequence:
  - service: notify.alexa_media
    data:
      message: >-
        {% set entities = {
            'update.home_assistant_operating_system_update': 'Home Assistant OS Update',
            'update.home_assistant_core_update': 'Home Assistant Core',
            'update.esphome_update': 'E S P Home',

        } %}

        {% for entity, name in entities.items() %}
          {% if states(entity) == 'on' %}
          There's a {{ name }} pending. 
          The Installed version is {{ state_attr( entity, 'installed_version') }} 
          The Available version is {{ state_attr(entity, 'latest_version') }} 
          {% endif %}
        {% endfor %}        
      target:
        - media_player.dining_room_echo_plus
mode: single
icon: mdi:update