Meet Spook. A new toolbox for Home Assistant. It's SCARY!

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4 ай бұрын

I talk about the Spook custom integration for Home Assistant. This integration adds some new tools and extends others.
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@GMoneyLove 4 ай бұрын

Six or more minutes into this video and all I've gotten is what I can read on the Spook website. Why? Eight plus minutes in and we are finally getting to the meat of all this. This video, with all the great information could be so much stronger and more people could get more from it with some better editing. FWIW.

@KarlMiller 4 ай бұрын

FOUR MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO AND I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK THIS IS. GAVE UP

@lewiskelly14 4 ай бұрын

He does babble on a bit too much and I too am leaving early

@SamKatakouzinos 4 ай бұрын

Why watch a video you know is 30m and give up 4m in?

@lewiskelly14 4 ай бұрын

@@SamKatakouzinos He didn't know how much useless chatter there would be in advance of watching did he... come on...

@KarlMiller 4 ай бұрын

@@SamKatakouzinos I explained why.

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Yes. I talked too much. When I looked at the recording timer near the end (and mentioned it in the video) I was shocked how long it went on. I mentioned something the other day to someone about a video I watched and said "that person used about 3000 too many words to get the point across". I can understand how this video falls into that category. It needs chapters also. Something I thought was mainly a YT gimmick that didn't get used but now I see that maybe those are actually worthwhile.

@lewiskelly14 4 ай бұрын

Video needs chapters

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Never really knew of those were useful or not. Takes some extra time to add those.

@brianmorgan7207 4 ай бұрын

Frenck always does great stuff. I'm going to use this to clean up my 4+ year HA instance. Thanks.

@markshaz8691 4 ай бұрын

It’s actually a must have helps keep your home assistant cleaner.

@farnoud 4 ай бұрын

Skip to 9:00. You’ll thank me later

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Haha. Skip all my bantering!

@tprav 4 ай бұрын

I get it lol! Thank you for this video. I'm trying Spook and will be referring back to the video for guidance. So much time is needed focusing on HA set up /dashboard which (mine) is a mess!

@rhosk 4 ай бұрын

Gonna play with this, thanks!

@ErikGeurts 4 ай бұрын

The Dutch pronunciation for Spook is actually virtually identical to the English "Spoke". The sound of the O is like the O in ghost.

@DonParlor 3 ай бұрын

Hello Chris! I recently had a problem with the Tuya integration and every Tuya-entity disappeared from HA but also from my automations. I remembered I had seen your video about Spook and I just installed it. Spook quickly highlighted all problems related to my automations, this is great! Thanks for sharing this integration with your subscribers.

@mostlychris 3 ай бұрын

Outstanding! Thanks to Frenck for making this add-on.

@boudewijndejong9134 3 ай бұрын

Any updates on your experience with this Custom Integration. Still as happy as expected?

@mattnelson1366 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the PSA on HA Backups... good reminder to verify my backup is working.

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Yeah..I've had to restore a couple of times over the years and soooo glad I had a backup.

@JMX246 3 ай бұрын

After you fix a repair item - how do you get it to "re-scan / refresh" - without rebooting HA - thanks for posting - great content

@rodneysmith1750 4 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for all your time and efforts. I can see a few times I could make use of this, but I am too much of a noob and think I may not live long enough to understand everything in HA and how to manipulate it. Still....

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Haha. I bet you'll use it one day. Starting with a fresher install than mine might yield fewer issues.

@jlpnea 4 ай бұрын

Very powerful, but be very careful when using it. Make a good backup before, I happened to have to restore the backup because HA had become corrupted

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Backups are a MUST as mentioned in the video!

@Joseph-ko2kl 4 ай бұрын

Back up advice..best part of this! LOL. Been there Homie.

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@freeluvbreedlove 4 ай бұрын

Do people not say Hacks?

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Some people do yes.

@WoottonRivers 4 ай бұрын

Looks interesting. I may install it - just for the repairs. Then remove it

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

That works too.

@CamiloSperberg 4 ай бұрын

Please just say "hacks" instead of H-A-C-S hahaha

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Didn't know how polarizing H A C S vs HACKS was. I'll try to remember the "official" pronunciation in future videos. 😂

@feupeu Ай бұрын

11 minute in and i still don't know what spook is

@sameshenmoodley7378 Ай бұрын

Nice reading.

@arjanmensink1892 4 ай бұрын

I installed spook immediately after seeing this video, thanks!

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Excellent. Wonder if it found anything for you.

@arjanmensink1892 4 ай бұрын

It found a hidden dashboard with a lot of old/removed entities, and 2 automations with removed entities @@mostlychris

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

It did that for me too. Dashboard was called overview and I actually had to delete a file to remove it since I am using mixed yaml and non-yaml dashboards. Still trying to clean up the rest of the bits of that one.

@tablatronix 4 ай бұрын

8:43 lol

@JohnHollenbeckTech 4 ай бұрын

Great Video! I really like this tool. Spook helped me clean up some dead/renamed entities in automations and dashboards. This is a really good tool to check out flaws in your HA build. I fixed ten automations and three dashboards. Thanks!!!!!

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Credit goes to Frenck for providing it and maintaining it!

@tprav 4 ай бұрын

Enough with not your homie

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

In hindsight, not a s funny as it seemed when recording.

@OGKenG 4 ай бұрын

Twelve minutes into this video and all I know now is that there are 12 minutes of warnings. Useless crap.

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

This one got a little long for sure. Probably should have dropped a bit more on the editing floor.

@OGKenG 4 ай бұрын

@@mostlychris Not that I was saying YOUR CONTENT was crap. The 12 minutes of warnings that Frenk put on there is insanely ridiculous. I like your content. I'm subscribed to you.

@mostlychris 4 ай бұрын

@@OGKenG Ahh ok. Thanks for the clarification. Thanks for subscribing and watching!

@henrikmller5986 3 ай бұрын

15:24 Shame on you. You should not need spook to have a overview off missing entities, just like backups you should know to remove devices that is not active anymore, to keep a clean and functional home assistant.

@Novation681 3 ай бұрын

Tough crowd in the comment section 😅 Mostlychris FTW

@mostlychris 3 ай бұрын

Yep. It's a long and wordy video. All I can do is take the feedback and make things better next time.

@hiddenlawyer 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how many people stopped watching because the first 30% of the video has a lot of words that pretty much mean nothing to anyone other than 1 simple warning with ZERO context. 😞