App Update Checker

Adrian_Rockall · November 6, 2020, 9:08am

Quickly see if any updates are available for your apps.

I have created an app that checks the App stores for updates to all the apps installed on your Homey.
There is an option to Notify on the Timeline once per day of any updated apps or you can check manually whenever you want. There is also an action flow card for ‘An update is available’.

The app configuration page will show a list of app updates along with buttons to go to the relevant app page in the store so the update can be installed. Updates are detected in both the release and test channels of the Athom store plus the Homey Community Store.

You can install this app via the Homey Community Store: https://store.homey.community/app/com.community.store

fantross · February 13, 2021, 12:02pm

Hey Adrian,

is there a possibility to check the Community and the official App Store for new Apps?
That would be a really nice feature.

Thx,
Dirk

Martijn_Hoogenbosch · February 13, 2021, 12:20pm

It’s doing that, isn’t it.

Yup it is. And the update checker checks both too. It does give me an error

TheFops · February 13, 2021, 12:45pm

I think he doesn’t mean updates of apps, but new apps in the store.

Adrian_Rockall · February 13, 2021, 12:56pm

I might be able to arrange something with @MaxvandeLaar for the HCS. The only way I can think of doing that with the official store is to keep a record of all the apps at a particular time and then compare with the current offerings. But I think that would take a lot of memory and processing time, so I don’t think it would be practical. The official store has a lot of apps.

fantross · February 13, 2021, 12:56pm

Right @TheFops. @Martijn_Hoogenbosch I mean NEW Apps not if there are new updates available.

fantross · February 13, 2021, 1:04pm

I’m not sure, but in the past there was a way to notify yourself that there was a new app using a flow. I think that was a built in feature.

Adrian, of course it depends on you if you are willing to do the work.
First I could make an official “feature request” to Athom (via thread!?).

Adrian_Rockall · February 13, 2021, 1:34pm

If Athom had an efficient way to get the information then I would be happy to add it.

fantross · March 2, 2021, 9:43am

Hi @Adrian_Rockall, now there is a solution to get notified if a new app has been released in the official app store:

Because Athom released also a Twitter app two days ago, I guess it’s also possible to get notified by Homey.

Adrian_Rockall · March 2, 2021, 9:58am

Hmm, interesting. I will have to investigate that.