Matter OTA for Eve Weather

[half nexus]

I wonder if anyone managed to update it to V3.5.0? Is there any hidden tricks to get this work?

[umbral rampart]

I managed to update Eve Weather to V3.5.0 using Apple Home. I had to reboot my AppleTV.

[half nexus]

Hey thx! Mine showed requested in Apple, and stuck there. I tried HA, but it usually stuck at a random percentage of progress.

[lament summit]

updating battery powered devices is tricky because they go to sleep. you just need to be very patient and let work in the background

[stark void]

After numerous attempts over the last few days. My eve weather finally updated to 3.5.0 via HA. I know the current word here is that HA initiated Matter updates will not work if an apple thread BR is in the mix, but it has worked for me in this config multiple times over the last couple weeks. Attempts through Apple home failed and then would get stuck at requested for indeterminant amounts of time.

[wheat sun]

Try to start the update directly in the Eve Weather node of the HA Matter server. Worked for some people:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/eve-weather-ota-update-from-3-3-0-to-3-5-0-running-into-timeouts/883435/15

[wheat sun]

Are you suggesting that a battery powered device can go/is going to sleep during an update procedure? Even during the upload of the firmware package?

[half nexus]

Thx guys for all the tricks. I noticed it's finally updated by Apple Home

[solemn dagger]

Do Matter devices auto update themselves or do I need to manually poke something? If I click on the update entity I just seem to get an infinite spinner.

Just to add, all my Matter devices are just in HA, I don't have any of the corresponding phone apps.

[wheat sun]

If you click the update button, the update should be performed automatically from there.

[stark void]

#1360076297119727697 message

The problem is the ota-chip-provider-app that is used by HA is incredibly outdated.

https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/matter-linux-ota-provider/releases

I compiled a new version myself and swapped it out and was immediately able to update the Eve Weather to 3.5.0

[umbral rampart]

Maybe you can open an issue here: https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/matter-linux-ota-provider/issues and an PR.

[stark void]

May have given the wrong impression, not my find or fix, just copying from a post here on discord and the reddit link. I don't mind reporting this as an issue on github though.

[hidden veldt]

Uuh nice find! So you have that device on the Apple Thread network then? Let's update that binary then asap! 😅

[hidden veldt]

Ah, nice find of the find then 😅

[umbral rampart]

The fork is here: https://github.com/THETCR/matter-linux-ota-provider

[thorn elm]

I asked THETCR on Reddit to post his finding in the following thead. He did it here:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/131939#issuecomment-2847032602

Maybe this OTA issue also gets solved with that ota package. 😃

[stark void]

HA Matter Server 7.1.0b1 bumps the ota Provider to the latest 2025.5.5.0 1.4 matter SDK

https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/python-matter-server/pull/1143

[velvet canopy]

@stark void , have you tried the update? wondering if the python 3.12 dependency marked as breaking change actually causes any trouble when setting the beta option via UI.