FOUR MINUTES INTO THE VIDEO AND I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK THIS IS. GAVE UP
@lewiskelly149 ай бұрын
He does babble on a bit too much and I too am leaving early
@SamKatakouzinos9 ай бұрын
Why watch a video you know is 30m and give up 4m in?
@lewiskelly149 ай бұрын
@@SamKatakouzinos He didn't know how much useless chatter there would be in advance of watching did he... come on...
@KarlMiller9 ай бұрын
@@SamKatakouzinos I explained why.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Yes. I talked too much. When I looked at the recording timer near the end (and mentioned it in the video) I was shocked how long it went on. I mentioned something the other day to someone about a video I watched and said "that person used about 3000 too many words to get the point across". I can understand how this video falls into that category. It needs chapters also. Something I thought was mainly a YT gimmick that didn't get used but now I see that maybe those are actually worthwhile.
@GMoneyLove9 ай бұрын
Six or more minutes into this video and all I've gotten is what I can read on the Spook website. Why? Eight plus minutes in and we are finally getting to the meat of all this. This video, with all the great information could be so much stronger and more people could get more from it with some better editing. FWIW.
@brianmorgan72079 ай бұрын
Frenck always does great stuff. I'm going to use this to clean up my 4+ year HA instance. Thanks.
@lewiskelly149 ай бұрын
Video needs chapters
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback. Never really knew of those were useful or not. Takes some extra time to add those.
@farnoud9 ай бұрын
Skip to 9:00. You’ll thank me later
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Haha. Skip all my bantering!
@markshaz86919 ай бұрын
It’s actually a must have helps keep your home assistant cleaner.
@DonParlor8 ай бұрын
Hello Chris! I recently had a problem with the Tuya integration and every Tuya-entity disappeared from HA but also from my automations. I remembered I had seen your video about Spook and I just installed it. Spook quickly highlighted all problems related to my automations, this is great! Thanks for sharing this integration with your subscribers.
@mostlychris8 ай бұрын
Outstanding! Thanks to Frenck for making this add-on.
@tprav9 ай бұрын
I get it lol! Thank you for this video. I'm trying Spook and will be referring back to the video for guidance. So much time is needed focusing on HA set up /dashboard which (mine) is a mess!
@mattnelson13669 ай бұрын
Thanks for the PSA on HA Backups... good reminder to verify my backup is working.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Yeah..I've had to restore a couple of times over the years and soooo glad I had a backup.
@jlpnea9 ай бұрын
Very powerful, but be very careful when using it. Make a good backup before, I happened to have to restore the backup because HA had become corrupted
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Backups are a MUST as mentioned in the video!
@boudewijndejong91348 ай бұрын
Any updates on your experience with this Custom Integration. Still as happy as expected?
@rodneysmith17509 ай бұрын
Great video, thanks for all your time and efforts. I can see a few times I could make use of this, but I am too much of a noob and think I may not live long enough to understand everything in HA and how to manipulate it. Still....
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Haha. I bet you'll use it one day. Starting with a fresher install than mine might yield fewer issues.
@hiddenlawyer8 ай бұрын
I wonder how many people stopped watching because the first 30% of the video has a lot of words that pretty much mean nothing to anyone other than 1 simple warning with ZERO context. 😞
@ErikGeurts8 ай бұрын
The Dutch pronunciation for Spook is actually virtually identical to the English "Spoke". The sound of the O is like the O in ghost.
@rhosk9 ай бұрын
Gonna play with this, thanks!
@sameshenmoodley73786 ай бұрын
Nice reading.
@kirkrende39353 ай бұрын
Go to 4:18 to skip over the redundant disclaimer schtick and find out what it is for and/or what it does...or better yet, the recap at 26:50. That "not your homey" catchphrase got old incredibly fast.
@JMX2468 ай бұрын
After you fix a repair item - how do you get it to "re-scan / refresh" - without rebooting HA - thanks for posting - great content
@NicksStuff3 ай бұрын
I'd like to see a tour of Frenck's home...
@CamiloSperberg9 ай бұрын
Please just say "hacks" instead of H-A-C-S hahaha
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Didn't know how polarizing H A C S vs HACKS was. I'll try to remember the "official" pronunciation in future videos. 😂
@WoottonRivers9 ай бұрын
Looks interesting. I may install it - just for the repairs. Then remove it
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
That works too.
@feupeu6 ай бұрын
11 minute in and i still don't know what spook is
@Joseph-ko2kl9 ай бұрын
Back up advice..best part of this! LOL. Been there Homie.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@JohnHollenbeckTech9 ай бұрын
Great Video! I really like this tool. Spook helped me clean up some dead/renamed entities in automations and dashboards. This is a really good tool to check out flaws in your HA build. I fixed ten automations and three dashboards. Thanks!!!!!
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful. Credit goes to Frenck for providing it and maintaining it!
@arjanmensink18929 ай бұрын
I installed spook immediately after seeing this video, thanks!
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Excellent. Wonder if it found anything for you.
@arjanmensink18929 ай бұрын
It found a hidden dashboard with a lot of old/removed entities, and 2 automations with removed entities @@mostlychris
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
It did that for me too. Dashboard was called overview and I actually had to delete a file to remove it since I am using mixed yaml and non-yaml dashboards. Still trying to clean up the rest of the bits of that one.
@tprav9 ай бұрын
Enough with not your homie
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
In hindsight, not a s funny as it seemed when recording.
@breedlovejason9 ай бұрын
Do people not say Hacks?
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Some people do yes.
@tablatronix8 ай бұрын
8:43 lol
@Novation6818 ай бұрын
Tough crowd in the comment section 😅 Mostlychris FTW
@mostlychris8 ай бұрын
Yep. It's a long and wordy video. All I can do is take the feedback and make things better next time.
@TheRubernck21Ай бұрын
Frenck must be a Linux person, lol. Jus kidding
@henrikmller59868 ай бұрын
15:24 Shame on you. You should not need spook to have a overview off missing entities, just like backups you should know to remove devices that is not active anymore, to keep a clean and functional home assistant.
@OGKenG9 ай бұрын
Twelve minutes into this video and all I know now is that there are 12 minutes of warnings. Useless crap.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
This one got a little long for sure. Probably should have dropped a bit more on the editing floor.
@OGKenG9 ай бұрын
@@mostlychris Not that I was saying YOUR CONTENT was crap. The 12 minutes of warnings that Frenk put on there is insanely ridiculous. I like your content. I'm subscribed to you.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
@@OGKenG Ahh ok. Thanks for the clarification. Thanks for subscribing and watching!
@fibranijevidra9 ай бұрын
After 12min. into this video, first time on your channel I got really borred.
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Try some other videos where I didn't ramble on quite as much. I agree that this one was a bit too long. Feedback is always welcome.
@fibranijevidra9 ай бұрын
@@mostlychris I'm not new to your channel. I quite like it. Just this video made me lose the interest.
@NoName-ws9qv9 ай бұрын
rename your channel to mostly talking without substance .. geez
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Yep. Got long winded on this one.
@Doerakker8 ай бұрын
Trying to be funny so hard and it still didn’t work: spook is not your homey
@SparketDog9 ай бұрын
HA Powertools lol
@mostlychris9 ай бұрын
Exactly.
@occamraiser5 ай бұрын
sorry but this video is stupidly vague. I know you want viewer minutes and clicks but you're not getting mine with this babble.