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Features previously available in Spook

Adieu, goodbye, auf Wiederseh'n!

Some features have been removed from Spook over time; this page is dedicated to those fallen features.

Template engine extensions

Spook provided several template functions to enhance Home Assistant’s template engine, including:

  • flatten: Flatten lists of lists
  • md5: Calculate MD5 hashes
  • sha1: Calculate SHA1 hashes
  • sha256: Calculate SHA256 hashes
  • sha512: Calculate SHA512 hashes
  • shuffle: Shuffle lists
  • typeof: Reveal the type of a value

As of Home Assistant 2025.4, these template functions are now available in Home Assistant core.

Obsolete integration & platform YAML configuration repairs

Spook looked for YAML configuration of integrations (and older integration platforms) that no longer support being configured via YAML. If it found those, it would raise a repair issue in your repairs dashboard to keep your YAML configuration nice and clean.

As of Home Assistant 2023.6, Home Assistant will raise repair issues for these cases itself.

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