Entity management

Entities in Home Assistant are the building blocks of your home automation. Spook enhances the core of Home Assistant by adding services to control those entities programmatically.

Services¶

The following entity management services are added to your Home Assistant instance:

Disable an entity¶

This service allows you to disable an entity on the fly.

Service properties
Service	Disable an entity 👻
Service name	homeassistant.disable_entity
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
Developer tools	Try this service

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service: homeassistant.disable_entity
data:
  entity_id: light.living_room

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service: homeassistant.disable_entity
data:
  entity_id:
    - light.living_room
    - light.kitchen_ceiling

Enable an entity¶

This service allows you to enable an entity on the fly.

Service properties
Service	Enable an entity 👻
Service name	homeassistant.enable_entity
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
Developer tools	Try this service

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service: homeassistant.enable_entity
data:
  entity_id: light.living_room

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service: homeassistant.enable_entity
data:
  entity_id:
    - light.living_room
    - light.kitchen_ceiling

Hide an entity¶

This service allows you to hide an entity on the fly.

It can be particularly useful when you have a lot of entities, and you want to hide some of them from the generated UI based programmatically. Hidden entities are also not exposed to external voice assistants, like Google Assistant or Alexa.

Service properties
Service	Hide an entity 👻
Service name	homeassistant.hide_entity
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
Developer tools	Try this service

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service: homeassistant.hide_entity
data:
  entity_id: light.living_room

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service: homeassistant.hide_entity
data:
  entity_id:
    - light.living_room
    - light.kitchen_ceiling

Unhide an entity¶

This service allows you to unhide an entity on the fly.

Service properties
Service	Unide an entity 👻
Service name	homeassistant.unhide_entity
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
Developer tools	Try this service

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service: homeassistant.unhide_entity
data:
  entity_id: light.living_room

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service: homeassistant.unhide_entity
data:
  entity_id:
    - light.living_room
    - light.kitchen_ceiling

Update an entity’s ID¶

This service allows you to update an entity’s ID on the fly.

Service properties
Service	Update an entity’s ID 👻
Service name	homeassistant.update_entity_id
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
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service: homeassistant.update_entity_id
data:
  entity_id: light.living_room
  new_entity_id: light.dining_room

Delete all orphaned entities¶

Mass clean up your Home Assistant by deleting all orphaned entities in one go.

Orphaned entities are entities that are no longer claimed by an integration. This can happen when an integration is removed or when an integration is no longer working. Home Assistant considers an entity only orphaned if it has been unclaimed since the last restart of Home Assistant.

Service properties
Service	Delete all orphaned entities 👻
Service name	homeassistant.delete_all_orphaned_entities
Service targets	No
Service response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added service.
Developer tools	Try this service

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service: homeassistant.delete_all_orphaned_entities

Blueprints & tutorials¶

There are currently no known blueprints or tutorials for the enhancements Spook provides for these features. If you created one or stumbled upon one, please let us know in our discussion forums.

Features requests, ideas, and support¶

If you have an idea on how to further enhance this, 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 page on where to go for help.