Other features - Spook 👻 a scary powerful toolbox for Home Assistant.

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.

Actions¶

Spook offers the following useless actions:

Boo!¶

This acti will just always scare Home Assistant, causing this action call to fail. Calling this action in any of your automations will thus cause your automation to stop and error.

Screenshot of the Spook Boo! action in the developer tools.

Open your Home Assistant instance and show your actions developer tools with a specific action selected.

Action properties
Action	Boo! 👻
Action name	`spook.boo`
Action targets	No
Action response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added action
Developer tools	Try this action

Example action in YAML

This action has no parameters, so you can just call it like this:

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action: homeassistant.boo

Random fail¶

This action call will randomly fail (and thus randomly stop your automation or script).

Action properties
Action	Random fail 👻
Action name	`spook.random_fail`
Action targets	No
Action response	No response
Spook's influence	Newly added action
Developer tools	Try this action

Example action in YAML

This action has no parameters, so you can just call it like this:

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action: homeassistant.random_fail

Features

Helpers

Core extensions

Integration management