The energy dashboard in Home Assistant is where your consumption, production, gas, water, and battery numbers come together. It is configured once, in Settings > Dashboards > Energy, by pointing it at the entities that carry those numbers.
That configuration is a list of entity IDs held separately from the entities themselves, and nothing keeps the two in step. Home Assistant does validate it, but it shows the result only inside that configuration panel, which is a page you visit when you are changing something rather than one you check.
Spook enhances the energy dashboard by taking Home Assistant’s own validation and raising a repairs issue for it, so a removed entity comes to you instead of waiting to be found.
Devices & entities¶
Spook does not provide any new devices or entities for this integration.
Actions¶
Spook does not provide action 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¶
Spook runs Home Assistant’s own energy validation and looks for one result out of the several it can return: an entity with no state at all. That is usually one that was removed, though the same result covers an entity that never loaded or failed to set up, so treat it as a reference worth checking rather than a verdict. The other results are either transient (an entity that happens to be unavailable right now) or a configuration choice rather than a mistake, so Spook leaves those alone.
What this buys you is where the answer appears. The dashboard itself does not complain: it draws the sources it can still read and leaves out the one it cannot, so the graph stays plausible while quietly being wrong. A missing gas sensor does not look like an error, it looks like a month where you used no gas.
To resolve the raised issue, go to Settings > Dashboards > Energy and update or remove these entities. Spook will automatically remove the repair issue once the issue is fixed.
Use cases¶
Some use cases for the enhancements Spook provides for this integration:
Replacing an energy meter. The new integration gives you new entity IDs, the energy dashboard keeps the old ones, and the totals silently stop adding up.
Renaming a sensor that feeds the dashboard. Renaming is cheap and easy to do, which is exactly why it is easy to forget that the energy configuration was pointing at the old name.
Blueprints & tutorials¶
There are currently no known blueprints or tutorials for the enhancements Spook provides for this integration. If you created one or stumbled upon one, please let us know in our discussion forums.
Feature requests, ideas, and support¶
If you have an idea on how to further enhance this integration, for example, by adding a new action, 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.