diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 59c20869..348fcc10 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ planned for 2025-04-01
 - [newsfeed] Add specific ignoreOlderThan value (override) per feed (#3360)
 - [weather] Added option Humidity to hourly View
 - [weather] Added option to hide hourly entries that are Zero, hiding the entire column if empty.
+- [updatenotification] Added option to iterate over modules directory instead using modules defined in `config.js` (#3739)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/modules/default/updatenotification/node_helper.js b/modules/default/updatenotification/node_helper.js
index c78f413d..88264f7c 100644
--- a/modules/default/updatenotification/node_helper.js
+++ b/modules/default/updatenotification/node_helper.js
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+const fs = require("node:fs");
+const path = require("node:path");
 const NodeHelper = require("node_helper");
 const defaultModules = require("../defaultmodules");
 const GitHelper = require("./git_helper");
@@ -14,8 +16,23 @@ module.exports = NodeHelper.create({
 	gitHelper: new GitHelper(),
 	updateHelper: null,
 
+	getModules (modules) {
+		if (this.config.useModulesFromConfig) {
+			return modules;
+		} else {
+			// get modules from modules-directory
+			const moduleDir = path.normalize(`${__dirname}/../../`);
+			const getDirectories = (source) => {
+				return fs.readdirSync(source, { withFileTypes: true })
+					.filter((dirent) => dirent.isDirectory() && dirent.name !== "default")
+					.map((dirent) => dirent.name);
+			};
+			return getDirectories(moduleDir);
+		}
+	},
+
 	async configureModules (modules) {
-		for (const moduleName of modules) {
+		for (const moduleName of this.getModules(modules)) {
 			if (!this.ignoreUpdateChecking(moduleName)) {
 				await this.gitHelper.add(moduleName);
 			}
diff --git a/modules/default/updatenotification/updatenotification.js b/modules/default/updatenotification/updatenotification.js
index a18bc4db..f3d661fc 100644
--- a/modules/default/updatenotification/updatenotification.js
+++ b/modules/default/updatenotification/updatenotification.js
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Module.register("updatenotification", {
 		sendUpdatesNotifications: false,
 		updates: [],
 		updateTimeout: 2 * 60 * 1000, // max update duration
-		updateAutorestart: false // autoRestart MM when update done ?
+		updateAutorestart: false, // autoRestart MM when update done ?
+		useModulesFromConfig: true // if `false` iterate over modules directory
 	},
 
 	suspended: false,