2025.2: Iterating on backups

As of this update my dashboard does not fit the screen anymore. Previously it would resize the energy consumption graph a little bit to make everything fit nicely. Now I need to scroll to see the status bar at the bottom (this is a heatpump status if you a curious).
Also, the solar energy (orange in the bar graph) is now on the top of the bar columns which should be a the bottom (as on the picture). Attache image is of the old situation, don’t have a proper screenshot .

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Are you using sections?

For the graph card, under layout try removing the value for rows. You will need to do it in the yaml view.

So long as MS treats these as two different things with the same name, it has to be handled as two different things. It would make sense why they started with personal, and they are just using the name MS uses.

Once again a great release! Love the monitor in the Bluetooth integration.

Just an idea: maybe the Bluetooth Company Identifier could be enriched with the company name using this source: [Bluetooth Company Identifiers] Company identifiers are unique numbers assigned by the Bluetooth SIG to member companies requesting one. · GitHub

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In this case identifier 76 = 4C hex = Apple Inc.

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Put it in a feature request.

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Graphs.
In 2025.1.x I could use ctrl, left click to select an area of a graph to zoom in on - fantastic just like the great HACS history card . And then I could then use ctrl and scroll to zoom in closer.

In 2025.2.1 I can’t now ctrl, left click to select an area.
Even after refreshing the browser cache. I have tried Chrome and Edge both exhibit the same lack of functionality

I see this in the forums

History graph regression with 2025.2 - Configuration / Frontend - Home Assistant Community

Is this because of the following from the release notes, if so its a backward step of functionality that was only introduced in last months release!
I hope I have just missed something.

Preparing our graphs for the future

This release includes a major overhaul of every graph we display and show in Home Assistant. We have entirely replaced the software library that renders these graphs in the frontend.

You can most definitely tell things have changed, but everything still looks very similar. The latter was our goal for now, as we wanted the existing experience to be familiar.

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One of regression of new graphs is that a legend became scrollable - like it is shown here on another person’s post:
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The reason is that Echarts themselves allow a legend to overlap a graph:

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There is a “padding” property in Docs - but it does not seem to be working to define a vertical gap between a legend and a graph.
Play here as you like.

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It was my exact experience after updating from 2025.1.4 to 2025.2.1 just now. It really screwed up my statistics sensors. :frowning:

Upgraded to 2025.2.1 (I skipped 2025.2.0) having authentication errors with Litter Robot integration.

State values are only showing up as Unavilable after doing the upgrade, so I think the issue is with the update

I do not think this is a coincidence - Walkersway has reported the same problem 4 days ago - 2025.2: Iterating on backups - #58 by Walkersway

I have the same issue,
expecially with gas and solar,
but only in the morning, in the afternoon it’s ok.
I see the issue best on IOS, but also in the webinterface the with is different.


but less obvious.

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By the afternoon, you probably have enough hourly readings for it to be able to correctly work out the bar widths?

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that’s why I think,
But almost all days have 24 hours.
on yearly basis there are 2 exceptions, So I’m not sure if it is really needed to calculate the with dynamically.
and if it needs to be calculated dynamically, IMHO it should be calculated based on all hours, not only base on the once where there are actually values.
Still I think the energy dashboard is really cool.

Have successfully setup automatic backups on onedrive location. Was using previously onedrive backup add-on. Wondering why process time with new integrated backup is almost three times longer than with onedrive backup add-on (8 minutes vs 3 minutes)

I noticed, that the graph in the energy dashboard now shows addditional/alternative sources (like solar power) on top of the bar. AFAIR in previous versions it showed it at the bottom of the bar.

Is that configurable?

Context:
From a visibility/clarity perspective, I find it more intuitiv to show it at the bottom as the correlation with the solar production chart directly underneath was immediately obvious.
Unfortunately I do not have a screenshot how it was before …

Cheers, Daniel.

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Yeah that has been noticed a few times but no one has opened a front end issue to get it fixed. See: Energy dashboard - flip bars - #2 by tom_l

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Nobody reacted.
So, the question is still here.
Lots of efforts were spent for this migration, some old functionality is still broken, some already fixed, some cannot be fixed due to own issues in Echarts.
(not to mention that Echarts works slower)
Hopefully Echarts.js will give more useful features which are not available in Charts.js. Can only guess.

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Perhaps you missed all 20+ of the WTHs asking for updated history plots with more functionality.

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Perhaps I checked if this functionality is possible with Chart.js.

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Most of it wasn’t.

Then a simple explanation from a dev team could be sufficient.
And note that this migration caused a speed degradation.