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

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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • I talk about the Spook custom integration for Home Assistant. This integration adds some new tools and extends others.
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  • @GMoneyLove
    @GMoneyLove 8 месяцев назад +26

    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
    @KarlMiller 9 месяцев назад +92

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

    • @lewiskelly14
      @lewiskelly14 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @SamKatakouzinos
      @SamKatakouzinos 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @lewiskelly14
      @lewiskelly14 9 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @KarlMiller
      @KarlMiller 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@SamKatakouzinos I explained why.

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +11

      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.

  • @brianmorgan7207
    @brianmorgan7207 9 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @lewiskelly14
    @lewiskelly14 9 месяцев назад +24

    Video needs chapters

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @markshaz8691
    @markshaz8691 9 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @DonParlor
    @DonParlor 8 месяцев назад

    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
      @mostlychris  8 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @boudewijndejong9134
    @boudewijndejong9134 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @farnoud
    @farnoud 9 месяцев назад +13

    Skip to 9:00. You’ll thank me later

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +1

      Haha. Skip all my bantering!

  • @tprav
    @tprav 9 месяцев назад +1

    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!

  • @mattnelson1366
    @mattnelson1366 9 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

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

  • @jlpnea
    @jlpnea 9 месяцев назад +2

    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
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +1

      Backups are a MUST as mentioned in the video!

  • @JMX246
    @JMX246 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @ErikGeurts
    @ErikGeurts 8 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @kirkrende3935
    @kirkrende3935 3 месяца назад

    Go to 4:18 to skip over the redundant disclaimer schtick and find out what it is for and/or what it does...or better yet, the recap at 26:50. That "not your homey" catchphrase got old incredibly fast.

  • @hiddenlawyer
    @hiddenlawyer 8 месяцев назад +3

    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. 😞

  • @CamiloSperberg
    @CamiloSperberg 9 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @rodneysmith1750
    @rodneysmith1750 9 месяцев назад +2

    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
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

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

  • @sameshenmoodley7378
    @sameshenmoodley7378 6 месяцев назад +1

    Nice reading.

  • @feupeu
    @feupeu 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @rhosk
    @rhosk 9 месяцев назад +1

    Gonna play with this, thanks!

  • @NicksStuff
    @NicksStuff 3 месяца назад

    I'd like to see a tour of Frenck's home...

  • @WoottonRivers
    @WoottonRivers 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @breedlovejason
    @breedlovejason 9 месяцев назад +2

    Do people not say Hacks?

  • @Joseph-ko2kl
    @Joseph-ko2kl 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @JohnHollenbeckTech
    @JohnHollenbeckTech 9 месяцев назад

    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
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

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

  • @arjanmensink1892
    @arjanmensink1892 9 месяцев назад

    I installed spook immediately after seeing this video, thanks!

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

      Excellent. Wonder if it found anything for you.

    • @arjanmensink1892
      @arjanmensink1892 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @tprav
    @tprav 9 месяцев назад +3

    Enough with not your homie

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @tablatronix
    @tablatronix 8 месяцев назад +1

    8:43 lol

  • @OGKenG
    @OGKenG 9 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

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

    • @OGKenG
      @OGKenG 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@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
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @Novation681
    @Novation681 8 месяцев назад

    Tough crowd in the comment section 😅 Mostlychris FTW

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  8 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @TheRubernck21
    @TheRubernck21 Месяц назад

    Frenck must be a Linux person, lol. Jus kidding

  • @henrikmller5986
    @henrikmller5986 7 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @fibranijevidra
    @fibranijevidra 9 месяцев назад +1

    After 12min. into this video, first time on your channel I got really borred.

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад +1

      Try some other videos where I didn't ramble on quite as much. I agree that this one was a bit too long. Feedback is always welcome.

    • @fibranijevidra
      @fibranijevidra 9 месяцев назад

      @@mostlychris I'm not new to your channel. I quite like it. Just this video made me lose the interest.

  • @NoName-ws9qv
    @NoName-ws9qv 9 месяцев назад +3

    rename your channel to mostly talking without substance .. geez

    • @mostlychris
      @mostlychris  9 месяцев назад

      Yep. Got long winded on this one.

  • @Doerakker
    @Doerakker 8 месяцев назад +1

    Trying to be funny so hard and it still didn’t work: spook is not your homey

  • @SparketDog
    @SparketDog 9 месяцев назад +1

    HA Powertools lol

  • @occamraiser
    @occamraiser 5 месяцев назад

    sorry but this video is stupidly vague. I know you want viewer minutes and clicks but you're not getting mine with this babble.