# Home assistant add-on: addons updater


I maintain this and other Home Assistant add-ons in my free time: keeping up with upstream changes, HA changes, and testing on real hardware takes a lot of time (and some money). I use around 5-10 of my >110 addons so regularly I install test machines (and purchase some test services such as vpn) that I don't use myself to troubleshoot and improve the addons

If this add-on saves you time or makes your setup easier, I would be very grateful for your support!

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## Addon informations

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## About

This script allows to automatically update addons based on upstream new releases. This is only an helper tool for developers. End users don’t need that to update their addons - they are automatically alerted by HA when an update is available

## Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in
comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.

1. [Add my Hass.io add-ons repository][repository] to your Hass.io instance.
1. Install this add-on.
1. Configure the add-on to your preferences, see below
1. Click the `Save` button to store your configuration.
1. Start the add-on.
1. Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.

## Configuration

No webUI. Configuration is set in 2 ways.

### Updater.json

In the addon folder of your repository (where is located you config.json), create a "updater.json" file.
This file will be used by the addon to fetch the addon upstream informations.
Only addons with an updater.json file will be updated.
Here is [an example](https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/blob/master/arpspoof/updater.json).

You can add the following tags in the file :

- github_fulltag: true is for example "v3.0.1-ls67" false is "3.0.1"
- github_beta: true/false ; should it look only for releases or prereleases ok
- github_havingasset : true if there is a requirement that a release has binaries and not just source
- github_tagfilter: filter a text in the release name
- github_exclude: exclude a text in the release name
- last_update: automatically populated, date of last upstream update
- repository: 'name/repo' coming from github
- paused: true # Pauses the updates
- slug: the slug name from your addon
- source: dockerhub/github,gitlab,bitbucket,pip,hg,sf,website-feed,local,helm_chart,wiki,system,wp
- upstream_repo: name/repo, example is 'linuxserver/docker-emby'
- upstream_version: automatically populated, corresponds to the current upstream version referenced in the addon
- dockerhub_by_date: in dockerhub, uses the last_update date instead of the version
- dockerhub_list_size: in dockerhub, how many containers to consider for latest version

### Addon configuration

Here you define the values that will allow the addon to connect to your repository.

```yaml
repository: 'name/repo' coming from github
gituser: your github username
gitapi: your github api token(classic) https://github.com/settings/tokens
gitmail: your github email
verbose: 'false'
```

Example:

```yaml
repository: alexbelgium/hassio-addons
gituser: your github username
gitapi: your github api token
gitmail: your github email
verbose: "false"
```

### Custom Scripts and Environment Variables

This addon supports custom scripts and environment variables through the `addon_config` mapping:

- **Custom scripts**: See [Running Custom Scripts in Addons](https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/wiki/Running-custom-scripts-in-Addons)
- **Environment variables**: Use the add-on `env_vars` option and see [Add Environment Variables to your Addon](https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons/wiki/Add-Environment-variables-to-your-Addon) for details.

[repository]: https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons