# \[Updates\] Ideas to improve the auto update functionality

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/updates-ideas-to-improve-the-auto-update-functionality/102246>\
**Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\
**Tags:** app, firmware\
**Created:** [January 25, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/updates-ideas-to-improve-the-auto-update-functionality/102246 "2024-01-25T12:16:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/updates-ideas-to-improve-the-auto-update-functionality/102246/1 "2024-01-25T12:16:16Z")

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Dear fellow Homeyans,  
(and cc to Athom support)

Since I’m a happy owner of a Homey, I have an idea on how to improve the auto update functionality of both firmware and apps.

### Current situation

Only just read the many topics about “After update Y, this and that does not work anymore”.  
And this is about _stable_ releases.  
And yes, things _tend_ to go wrong sometimes, while there’s no such thing as bugfree software.  
(_This is not meant as critisism at all, it’s just an improvement idea to not surprise the users with malfunctions caused by updates_)

I turned both auto update functions off a.s.a.p., and I install any needed update myself,

1. but it’s turned on by default, but without notifications
2. because FW updates tend to get pushed around 3 at night here.  
I don’t want unannounced changes, and Homey being restarted unattended, _and not having time to solve possible issues on the spot_
3. Stable apps with serious undiscovered bugs can be pushed, but there’s no easy _undo_ as far as I know.

- Pro 201x and cloud users can’t revert to the previous version → The cloud backup does not store your apps, only pointers to the apps in the app store.  
A backup restore results in the installation of the _current_ app versions from the app store, so cloud backup is 100% unusable in this scenario.
- Pro 2023 has an improvement: local USB backups, which save, and also restore the complete system 1:1  
But… which user has a daily routine, and discipline, to do the following _manually_:  
a.- take Homey offline  
b.- connect it to a PC,  
c.- start Homey in backup mode  
d.- create a backup  
e.- restart Homey in normal mode.

### Improvement idea

It’s similar to the MS Windows update functionality (sorry 😬 )

1. first, only announce new firmware / app updates
2. propose to pick a time and date for auto installation, within X days, and at that time and date, show a confirmation button (by push message?) to permit for the actual update to install.  
Make clear when ignored / cancelled, point 3.) will be executed:
3. after X days, update will be installed unattended, regardless.