A dashboard in Home Assistant provides the user interface to monitor and control your Home Assistant instance. They are extremely flexible, and there is quite a community around creating the fanciest dashboards you’ve ever seen. But with this great power comes great responsibility. It is easy to make mistakes in your dashboards, and it is not always easy to find them.
Spook enhances the dashboard integration of Home Assistant by raising repairs issues in case it detects something is wrong with a dashboard.
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 referenced entities¶
Dashboards are inspected for the use of entities. If a dashboard uses an entity ID in one of its cards that does not exist, Spook will raise a repair issue. The repairs issue raised will contain the name of the dashboard and the entity ID that is referenced but not found.
Figure 1:Spook found an issue with an dashboard that is using non-existing entities.
To resolve the raised issue, you can either remove the reference to the non-existing entity ID or fix the referenced entity ID. Spook will automatically remove the repair issue once the issue is fixed.
Known limitations
- Spook is not aware of all possible configuration for all possible cards. Especially with third-party cards, configuration can sometimes differ and Spook might not be able to detect the use of an unknown entity ID in such cases.
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.