The group helper integration lets you combine multiple entities into a single entity. Entities that are members of a group can be controlled and monitored as a whole.
This can be useful for cases where you want to control, for example, the multiple bulbs in a light fixture as a single light in Home Assistant, or maybe you want to combine all the wall plugs that control all your Christmas decorations into a single switch entity.
Figure 1:Spook found an issue with a group that has a non-existing entity as a member.
Devices & entities¶
Spook does not provide any new devices or entities for this integration.
Services¶
Spook does not provide service enhancements for this integration.
Repairs¶
While Spook is floating around in your Home Assistant instance, it will raise repairs issues if it has found something that is not right.
Unknown source entity¶
Spook inspects all groups created to find group member entities that no longer exist. If Spook finds such a case, it will raise a repair issue, informing you about the problematic group and the member entity that is missing.
To resolve the raised issue, you can either remove the missing entity from the group or fix the referenced source entity. Spook will automatically remove the repair issue once the issue is fixed.
Features requests, ideas, and support¶
If you have an idea on how to further enhance this integration, for example, by adding a new service, entity, or repairs detection; feel free to let us know in our discussion forums.
Are you stuck using these new features? Or maybe you’ve run into a bug? Please check the Support page on where to go for help.