Custom Updater

A component which allows you to track and update your custom cards and components.
To get the best use for this component, use it together with the tracker-card

⚠️ This will ONLY work if your components and/or cards/elements is from

• https://github.com/custom-cards
• https://github.com/custom-components
• https://github.com/ciotlosm/custom-lovelace

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⚠️ See here if you have used an earlier version of this

Before you install this version make sure that you remove these files (if you have them):

• /custom_components/custom_components.py
• /custom_components/custom_cards.py
• /custom_components/sensor/custom_components.py
• /custom_components/sensor/custom_cards.py

And remove custom_components and custom_cards from your configuration.yaml

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Installation

Step 1

Install this component by copying /custom_components/custom_updater.py from this repo to <config directory>/custom_components/custom_updater.py on your Home Assistant instanse.

Step 2

Add this to your configuration.yaml

custom_updater:

Optional config options

key	default	required	description
track	both	no	A list of what you want this component to track, possible values are cards/components
hide_sensor	Flase	no	Option to set the sensors to be hidden, possible values are True / False

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Activate Debug logging

Put this in your configuration.yaml

logger:
  default: warn
  logs:
    custom_components.custom_updater: debug

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Services

If you are not using the Lovelace UI or our recommended tracker-card for it,
you can still update custom-cards and -components by calling services from dev-service.

Check for updates

Service: custom_updater.check_all

Update all

Service: custom_updater.update_all

Update single card

You can update a single card by passing which card you want to update to the custom_updater.upgrade_single_card service.

Service: custom_updater.upgrade_single_card

Service Data:

{
  "card":"monster-card"
}

Update single component

You can update a single component by passing which component you want to update to the custom_updater.upgrade_single_component service.

Service: custom_updater.upgrade_single_component

Service Data:

{
  "component":"sensor.authenticated"
}