Refresh

The Refresh action tells AdGuard Home to re-download all of its filter subscriptions and pull in the latest blocking rules. This keeps your blocklists current and applies any changes right away.

It pairs well with the other actions. After you add or enable a list, a refresh makes the new rules take effect immediately instead of waiting for AdGuard Home’s next scheduled update.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To refresh your filter subscriptions from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select AdGuard Home: Refresh.
6. Optional: Turn on Force to bypass AdGuard Home’s update throttling.
7. Select Save.

This action does not support targets. In the UI, you are not prompted to choose an area, device, entity, or label.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required.

In YAML, refer to this action as adguard.refresh. A basic example looks like this:

action: adguard.refresh

This refreshes all filter subscriptions in AdGuard Home.

Options in YAML

Good to know

• AdGuard Home normally throttles filter updates to reduce load. Only turn on Force when you need the rules updated immediately, and use it sparingly.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup.

Automation: refresh blocklists every night

Keep your blocklists current by refreshing them once a day, while everyone is asleep.

• Trigger: Time, 04:00
• Action: AdGuard Home: Refresh

alias: "Refresh AdGuard Home blocklists nightly"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "04:00:00"
actions:
  - action: adguard.refresh

Still stuck?

The Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Add URL: Adds a new filter subscription to AdGuard Home.

• Remove URL: Removes a filter subscription from AdGuard Home.

• Enable URL: Enables a filter subscription in AdGuard Home.

• Disable URL: Disables a filter subscription in AdGuard Home.