frenck
Unknown entities used in automation
What version of Spook are you using?
4.0.1
What version of Home Assistant are you using?
2025.9.4
The problem
I have an Unknown entities used in one of my automation reported while this variable exists. I used to have it in the past, because the variable is created after the startup of HASS, but it use to disappear after few minutes as I believe Spook was refreshed. Now the notification stays for ever :
Anything in the logs? Paste it here!
Can you please share the YAML sources, so I have something to try to reproduce.
../Frenck
You know what...I feel so ashamed... I rebooted my server and since, I don't have the message anymore.
Hi @frenck
I just recently upgraded to 4.0.1 and I also started seeing this warning but only for timer.finished across 4 different automations that I have been using for a while.
The warning refers to timer.finished as a missing entity.
- trigger: event event_type: timer.finished event_data: entity_id: timer.bathroom_fan
- trigger: event event_type: timer.cancel event_data: entity_id: timer.bathroom_fan
I am not getting a warning for the timer.cancel trigger though.
I have the same issue, however for me it is related to a template file. The error:
The code from the automation:
alias: trash
description: ""
triggers:
- trigger: time
at: "19:00:00"
id: time_static
- trigger: sun
event: sunset
offset: "-1:00:00"
id: time_before_sunset
- trigger: sun
event: sunset
id: time_sunset
- trigger: sun
event: sunset
offset: "1:00:00"
id: time_after_sunset
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.trash_take_out
from: "off"
to: "on"
id: trash_take_out_on
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- input_boolean.trash_take_out
from: "on"
to: "off"
id: trash_take_out_off
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.0_ft_door_contact
from: "off"
to: "on"
id: door_opened
- trigger: state
entity_id:
- sun.sun
from: below_horizon
to: above_horizon
id: sun_above_horizon
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.manual_override_enabled
state: "off"
actions:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ now().weekday() == 0 }}"
alias: is monday
sequence:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- time_static
- time_before_sunset
- time_sunset
- time_after_sunset
sequence:
- if:
- alias: door was not opened
condition: template
value_template: "{{ was_door_opened==\"off\" }}"
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_take_out
state: "off"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ trash_take_out_changed==\"off\" }}"
alias: flag for taking out the trash did not changed?
then:
- action: input_boolean.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_take_out
- data:
title: trash
message: take out
action: script.notification
- action: script.todo_actions
metadata: {}
data:
action: needs_action
item: "{{ todo_item_trash_take_out }}"
list: todo.home_actions
debug: false
else:
- if: []
then:
- action: input_boolean.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_take_out
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- door_opened
sequence:
- action: input_boolean.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_take_out
- action: script.todo_actions
metadata: {}
data:
action: completed
item: "{{ todo_item_trash_take_out }}"
list: todo.home_actions
debug: false
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- sun_above_horizon
sequence:
- action: input_boolean.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_prepare_recicled
- conditions:
- alias: is tuesday
condition: template
value_template: "{{ now().weekday() == 1 }}"
sequence:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- sun_above_horizon
sequence:
- action: input_boolean.turn_off
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_take_out
- conditions:
- alias: is sunday
condition: template
value_template: "{{ now().weekday() == 6 }}"
- condition: template
value_template: "{{ should_prepare_recicled==\"on\" }}"
alias: should prepare recycled
sequence:
- choose:
- conditions:
- condition: trigger
id:
- sun_above_horizon
sequence:
- action: input_boolean.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
entity_id: input_boolean.trash_prepare_recicled
- action: script.todo_actions
metadata: {}
data:
action: needs_action
item: "{{ todo_item_trash_prepare_recicled }}"
list: todo.home_actions
debug: false
- data:
title: trash
message: prepare the recicled
action: script.notification
variables:
was_door_opened: >-
{%- from "time.jinja" import was_changed -%} {%- set result =
was_changed("binary_sensor.0_ft_door_contact", 420) -%}{{ result }}
trash_take_out_changed: >-
{%- from "time.jinja" import was_changed -%} {%- set result =
was_changed("input_boolean.trash_take_out", 480) -%}{{ result }}
trash_prepare_recicled_changed: >-
{%- from "time.jinja" import was_changed -%} {%- set result =
was_changed("input_boolean.trash_prepare_recicled", 480) -%}{{ result }}
should_prepare_recicled: >-
{%- set recicleTs = states('input_datetime.trash_recicle_day')|as_timestamp
-%} {%- set today = now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')|as_timestamp -%} {%- set days
= ((today+(60*60*24*2)-recicleTs)/(60*60*24))|round -%}{{ iif(days%14==0,
"on", "off") }}
todo_item_trash_take_out: "trash: take out"
todo_item_trash_prepare_recicled: "trash: prepare the recicled"
mode: single
and I have the "time.jinja" file, the automation was perfect and if I try the code in developer tools it returns what I expect.
By the way this is something new with v4.0.1 (in 4.0.0 no issue)
I have a similar issue, but it's related to an entity in a template that's commented out.
Repair notification:
Automation editor:
YAML section from the automation:
data:
media_player_entity_id: media_player.living_room_speaker
message: >-
{#{ state_translated('sensor.toothbrush_change_head') | string }} indicates
time to change, toothbrush head #}
{{ trigger.to_state.attributes.friendly_name | string }} indicates time to
change, toothbrush head
cache: false
target:
entity_id: tts.google_en_com
action: tts.speak
You know what...I feel so ashamed... I rebooted my server and since, I don't have the message anymore.
After my nightly restart of HASS the message is back
`alias: Jellyfin - Shutdown server if no activity description: "" triggers:
- minutes: /10 trigger: time_pattern conditions:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: state entity_id: binary_sensor.jellyfin state: "on" for: hours: 0 minutes: 10 seconds: 1
- condition: state entity_id: variable.jellyplayingitems attribute: TotalNumberOfPlayingItems state: "0" for: hours: 0 minutes: 14 seconds: 0
- condition: template value_template: |- {% if states("media_player.family_room") == "playing" -%} {% if not 'x-file-cifs' in state_attr("media_player.family_room", "media_content_id") -%} True {%- else %} False {%- endif %} {%- else %} True {%- endif %} alias: Test if Sonos is playing media from Jellyfin
- condition: not
conditions:
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state entity_id: sensor.qbittorrent_status state: downloading
- condition: state entity_id: sensor.qbittorrent_status state: up_down alias: Test if downloading on Qbittorent
- condition: or
conditions:
- condition: state entity_id: input_boolean.varshutdownjelly state: "on" actions:
- if:
- condition: and
conditions:
- condition: numeric_state entity_id: input_number.shutdown_jelly above: 0 then:
- data: {} action: shell_command.shutdown_jelly
- action: input_number.set_value metadata: {} data: value: 0 target: entity_id: input_number.shutdown_jelly
- metadata: {} data: message: Shutting down jellyfin action: notify.notify else:
- action: input_number.set_value metadata: {} data: value: 1 target: entity_id: input_number.shutdown_jelly
- metadata: {} data: message: Jellyfin will be shutdown in 10 min as there is no activity. action: notify.notify mode: single `
- condition: and
conditions: