These are some Spook-specific features that don’t fit in any of the other categories. They are not particularly useful, but they are fun to play with (and maybe you actually have a use case for them).
They originally served as the proof of concept for Spook and left them in for the fun of it.
Services¶
Spook offers the following services useless services:
Boo!¶
This service will just always scare Home Assistant, causing this service call to fail. Calling this service in any of your automations will thus cause your automation to stop and error.
| Service properties | |
|---|---|
| Service | Boo! 👻 |
| Service name | spook.boo |
| Service targets | No |
| Service response | No response |
| Spook's influence | Newly added service |
| Developer tools | Try this service
 |
Example service call in YAML
This service has no parameters, so you can just call it like this:
1service: homeassistant.boo
Random fail¶
This service call will randomly fail (and thus randomly stop your automation or script).
| Service properties | |
|---|---|
| Service | Random fail 👻 |
| Service name | spook.random_fail |
| Service targets | No |
| Service response | No response |
| Spook's influence | Newly added service |
| Developer tools | Try this service
|
Example service call in YAML
This service has no parameters, so you can just call it like this:
1service: homeassistant.random_fail