Clean Up Home Assistant and Boost Your System Performance!
If you’ve been running Home Assistant for a while, chances are your system is hiding clutter you don’t even realise exists. Old devices, orphaned entities, broken references, and unused statistics can quietly build up and impact performance.
In this video, I’ll show you how to properly clean up your Home Assistant instance so it stays organised, efficient, and running at its best.
We’ll cover:
✅ Finding broken references and unused entities using Watchman
✅ Removing orphaned entities safely
✅ Fixing statistics database issues
✅ Monitoring system problems with Spook
✅ Checking logs for hidden errors and warnings
✅ Best practices to keep your system healthy long term
Whether you’re troubleshooting performance issues or just want a cleaner smart home setup, this guide will help you keep everything running smoothly.
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Welcome & The Problem
1:34 The Watchman
3:05 Configuration
3:25 Exclude Entities
3:50 Ignore Files
4:17 Running The Report
5:28 Report Output
7:50 Scripts YAML Issues
8:05 Orphaned Entities
8:25 The Problem
8:50 Fixing The Problem
9:36 Database Statistics
10:36 Should You Delete?
10:50 Spook
11:34 An Example
11:54 Installing Spook
13:02 Entities
13:16 System Logs
13:58 SwitchBot Error
14:30 Supervisor Logs
14:48 Zigbee2MQTT Logs
15:11 Summary