How to use remote_providers with home assistant and zigpy

[Fredrik81]

Is it possible to use remote_providers with home assistant in current version of zigpy? I see no documentation on the topic (if my searches did not file me).

The code I'm testing and I receive the following error: voluptuous.error.MultipleInvalid: expected a list for dictionary value @ data['ota']['remote_providers]

zha:
  zigpy_config:
    ota:
      ikea_provider: true                        # Auto update Trådfri devices
      inovelli_provider: true                    # Auto update INOVELLI devices
      ledvance_provider: true                    # Auto update LEDVANCE/OSRAM devices
      salus_provider: true                       # Auto update SALUS/Computime devices
      sonoff_provider: true                      # Auto update Sonoff
      thirdreality_provider: true                # Auto update 3REALITY devices
#      otau_directory: /config/zipgy_ota          # Utilize .ota files to update everything
      remote_providers:
        url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Koenkk/zigbee-OTA/master/index.json"

[MattWestb]

If you is not having ZHA on the master you need putting it in the config for the client (on the master) or it cant loading all component OK. Your problem is the OTA configure that is not standard and making problems not the ZHA itself. Delete the

remote_providers:
        url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Koenkk/zigbee-OTA/master/index.json"

and im very sure you problems is solved then its not supported setting for ZHA.

[Fredrik81]

If you is not having ZHA on the master you need putting it in the config for the client (on the master) or it cant loading all component OK. Your problem is the OTA configure that is not standard and making problems not the ZHA itself. Delete the

remote_providers:
       url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Koenkk/zigbee-OTA/master/index.json"

and im very sure you problems is solved then its not supported setting for ZHA.

I'm not asking why is my ZHA reporting error, my question is: Is it possible to use remote_providers with home assistant in current version of zigpy

[puddly]

Remote providers are currently for development purposes. The metadata format is zigpy-specific and won't accept just any JSON. See https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-cli#generate-ota-index-files

[Hedda]

Is it possible to use remote_providers with home assistant in current version of zigpy? I see no documentation on the topic (if my searches did not file me).

FYI, the documentation about that zigpy OTA index files schema format for manufacturers is in the zigpy wiki in this repository:

https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/wiki/OTA-Information-for-Manufacturers

Also check out the readme file for zigpy-cli about using it to generate zigpy compatible OTA index files:

https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-cli#generate-ota-index-files

As stated, the existing index.json file in Koenkk's zigbee-OTA does not follow the metadata format that is specific to zigpy. See:

https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee-OTA/issues/263

(for a more detailed backstory about zigpy support for Koenkk's zigbee-OTA repository refer to the discussion here -> https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/issues/535 ).

Other than that read also the documentation in zigpy wiki for manual OTA updates or when a provider is already available:

https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/wiki/OTA-Device-Firmware-Updates

PS: Off-topic but FYI, if an end-users just want a simple workaround for third-party downloading then check out zha-toolkit:

https://github.com/mdeweerd/zha-toolkit?tab=readme-ov-file#ota_notify---downloadtrigger-device-fw-update

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/zha-toolkit-a-big-set-of-zigbee-commands-on-top-of-zha-zigpy/373346