Some other miscellaneous core features that didn’t fit elsewhere in the documentation.
Maybe I’m just bad at structuring the documentation? If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Services¶
The following miscellaneous services are added to your Home Assistant instance:
Restart¶
Restarts Home Assistant. Spook extends the existing restart service with an “force” option to force Home Assistant to restart immediately, ignoring all safety guards.
| Service properties | |
|---|---|
| Service | Restart 👻 |
| Service name | homeassistant.restart |
| Service targets | No |
| Service response | No response |
| Spook's influence | Extends the existing restart service with a “force” option. |
| Developer tools | Try this service
 |
| Service call data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Attribute | Type | Required | Default / Example |
force | boolean | no | false |
Example service call in YAML
1 2 3service: homeassistant.restart data: force: false
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.