Ability to define an Update sensor

[LordMike]

Awesome integration - I'm using this extensively.

Lately, I've made a flow that will update my Esphome devices when I need to. It's a lengthy process of compiling on low powered hardware, so I made a flow which updates one device at a time. Once the esphome devices are ready to update, they show up in HA in settings (as updateable entities), and then I can move in to my Node-red flow and trigger it.

What I'd like to be able to do, is to add an update sensor much like I can already add text/button/sensor entities from Node-red. Then I could expose the "update ready" status on this, and see this combined update entity in settings and click it right there. It would also be able to show a progress bar which mimiced the 20 something esphome devices I have.

That'd be cool :)

[zachowj]

In the meantime, you could try using the mqtt update.

[LordMike]

Ooh.. That could be an opportunity.