Trigger and monitor an over-the-air firmware update for a Zigbee device managed by Zigbee2MQTT

domain: zigbee2mqtt.io · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Enable the ota block in configuration.yaml, optionally tuning update_check_interval (default 1440 minutes)
  2. Publish to zigbee2mqtt/bridge/request/device/ota_update/check with payload {"id": "device_friendly_name"} to check for available firmware
  3. Publish to zigbee2mqtt/bridge/request/device/ota_update/update with the same payload shape to start the update
  4. Monitor progress via the corresponding zigbee2mqtt/bridge/response/... topic and device availability during the flash
  5. If needed, abort with a request to the .../update/abort topic, or use the /downgrade variant to roll back to an older image

Known gotchas

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