Update Manager for Home Assistant

Updates pile up, and it's never quite obvious which ones are safe to just let happen. Update Manager watches them for you and decides when an update has actually earned your trust: it gives a fresh release time to prove itself, listens for anyone else who's already made the same jump and hit trouble, and installs everything in an order that won't leave Home Assistant restarting mid-update. Turn on auto-install and most of that becomes something you never have to think about again, all from a panel that looks and feels like it's always been part of Home Assistant.

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Why you'll like it

• A second opinion before you commit. See whether others already made your exact jump safely, vote yourself, and let someone you trust override your own rules the moment they vouch for a release.
• Nothing installs in a risky order. Core, Supervisor, OS, and device firmware queue up to avoid a restart cutting off something else mid-install.
• Zigbee devices update one at a time. Flashing several at once floods the mesh with radio traffic and can destabilize it; Update Manager paces every device on the same network so that never happens.
• A waiting period sized to the risk. A small bump and a major Core jump don't deserve the same caution, so each size gets its own buffer before it counts as ready. Restrict further to specific weekdays or times, e.g. only ever ready on Saturdays.
• Auto-install that still asks first. A cancellable countdown announces what's coming, with an automatic backup when the update supports one, and a master switch to pause all of it in one click.
• Release notes worth reading. Real GitHub notes compiled across every skipped version, plus a wrapped app's own upstream notes (e.g. Zigbee2MQTT) alongside the short version.

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Installation

This integration is available via Home Assistant's built-in Marketplace.

1. Go to the Marketplace in your Home Assistant.
2. Search for "Update Manager" and download it.
3. Confirm the setup dialog that opens automatically, no restart needed.
4. Open the Update Manager entry in the sidebar to review updates and adjust the rules (Settings tab).

There's nothing to fill in during setup itself; every actual setting lives on Update Manager's own Settings tab.

Learn more

The Wiki covers the rest in detail: how auto-install actually decides, every setting explained, every sensor/event/action for your own automations (with a ready-to-paste example), known limitations, and troubleshooting.

Found a bug? Open an issue. Got an idea? Same place. Have a question, or built something cool with it? Head over to Discussions.

Removal

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services, find Update Manager, and remove it (the three-dot menu on its card, or open the entry and use Delete).
2. If you added it as a Marketplace custom repository, remove it from the Marketplace too (Integrations tab, three-dot menu on Update Manager's own card).

Nothing outside Home Assistant's own storage is touched by this integration (no separate service, container, or external account changes), so there's nothing else to clean up.