WLED update installs wrong WLED variant

[jonnybergdahl]

The problem

I am using the sound reactive version of WLED, but Home Assistant does not "know" that and wants to update to the latest stock version.

Obviously this breaks things and is very confusing to the user.

The update discovery needs to check if the existing firmware is non stock and not suggesting an update.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.2.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

WLED

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wled/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[joggs]

Exactly! Just experienced this by clicking update. I have the ethernet variant installed, but it seems to just install the standard variant. Fortunately I already had wifi setup as well, so I could reach it and update it with the ethernet bin without hassle.

[simonlirwin]

Same issue here. I clicked to update and WLED stopped working completely afterwards. I had to re-flash WLED sound reactive from scratch.

[victorclaessen]

Or worse, it tries to install the regular 4MB flash version on a chip with 1MB or 2MB flash and you end up with a non-functional device that you have to retrieve and re-flash via serial.

[dgm]

I just got sideswiped by this issue, it lost my sound reactive settings and I had to go look at my build notes to see how to set it up again after updating to the correct firmware again. I note that a couple years ago this was unsupported in issue #69549 but now that the sound reactive code is a part of the normal WLED distribution, it seems like home assistant could support it better.