A superb plugin for Home Assistant that every Hass user should install immediately as it solve or, can solve a lot of problems and save hours of frustration in trying to track down errors!
For Home Assistant users, go to this URL to install Spook.
If you run multiple automations and have numerous devices, this is a brilliant tool for identifying issues, such as deprecated entities or names, and more.
Seriously, it's a great tool, free and just works.
Finding Problems
Anyone who's run any home automation setup with more than a few routines, scripts and so on will be all too aware of the problem in finding things that are "broken". Unless it's in your face and you are made painfully aware of the issue through something not working or, you get moaned at by users that something is busted, you have no idea.
Other than occasionally thinking, "that's odd" as something else should have happened. Or, something should have happened but it didn't.
This is where Spooky is a godsend.
It finds problems with your stuff, fires it into the "repairs" section of automations, and if you're a bit OCD as I am, you can't ignore it and need to go and fix the problems.
Installing Spook
Dead easy, it's a HACS installation so all the usual stuff, download the latest version etc.
Nothing hard, nothing unusual.
Brilliant Finds, Better HA
I was surprised.
I'm pretty OCD, as I said, I check stuff a lot, and I didn't expect to find much with this tool even though in automations alone I'm running close to 300 plus scripts, groups and so on.
Imagine my surprise when Spook found 23 errors, as well as my surprise that it only found 23 errors from well over 300 "things" it checked!
All of them were obscure, things I'd not thought to check or even saw an issue with, but, in hindsight, explained a few anomalies in what is a fairly extensive setup.
Top Notch Plugin
The author of this HACS plugin is on the team for Hass and it shows. It's slick. Very slick.
Why it's not part of the core Hass setup I've no idea as it is absolutely superb, one of the best plugins I've ever come across by a long way.
It's simple, easy to install, just works and solves a lot of potential problems. You can't ask for more.
If you run Home Assistant, get this plugin and star it on GitHub to show support, that's my take.