[Deprecated] Interactive history explorer custom card

petro · January 16, 2024, 7:48pm

I’d just like to clear the air here. Alex is trying to paint the picture like I’m singling him out when I am not. Historically, Alex and I have not gotten along. We do not align on any views regarding… software in general. This of course causes problems because I am a moderator, he is not. I generally try not reply to any of his posts because of our historical disagreements.

Our last interaction, I proposed a question to a few users involving a problem which Alex was not involved in. Alex replied to my question, and I responded with a snippy remark. This lead to an additional 6 inappropriate back and forth messages between Alex and I. During these messages back and forth, both Alex and myself were not only off topic, but mean spirited. I shouldn’t have done that, neither should he have. So, I removed the 6 posts.

Alex took the removal of these messages as “You’re abusing your moderator powers to hide your own technical incompetence.”. I admit, the solution he offered was something I have never used. I even went back and edited my snarky remark, claiming his proposal was a good path forward. Somewhere in the middle of this, Alex took it upon himself to let me know his feelings through a direct message. This message was one of the worse personal message I’ve ever received from an individual on these forums. In the moment, I responded with an equally inappropriate message.

I then took this message to other moderators simply because Alex and I do not get along. Unfortunately, a knee jerk suspension was performed by a 3rd party moderator. Alex was suspended for roughly 10 minutes before I removed the suspension and got different moderator involved. I chose a moderator who I thought would be more impartial to the situation. At that point, the matter was resolved. Alex received a warning about the personal message.

This interaction could have been handled better by myself and by the moderator who hastily suspended Alex. I can’t speak for the other moderators actions, but for my actions, I apologize. As for Alex’s decision to leave, that is his own decision. I do feel that he is being harsh and not taking responsibility for his own actions and laying the blame solely on me. I do not think that is a fair assessment.

Anyways, I wish Alex the best of luck on his future smart home endevours.

If you have any questions about the situation, please contact @TheFes, the impartial moderator that was involved in the situation.

erkr · January 17, 2024, 4:14am

Hi Alex

Thanks for you efforts creating this really nice card. It provides a great chart of what I’m missing in the official history card.
Although deprecation of this card is a pity, your bad experiences are energy draining and a good reason to stop.
I also share your frustrations on the high maintenance aspect of HA. Repairs are indeed a monthly burden. Where the migration from configurations in yaml to the UI would be fine if all options where included. But that is not always the case.
I wish you the best in life and programming your home.

Eric

bynight · January 30, 2024, 8:49pm

Hi Alex,

I cannot find somethingh for horizontal bars for different (Energy) Sensors.
On each day I check several sets of sensors but I cannot see the values from the day before or 2 days before or 1 week before…
I need this for 16 or 32 or 48 Sensors or for the whole page… please see the picture:

Is there a possibility to solve this? Maybe similar to this:

Ronald

arganto · January 31, 2024, 6:41am

Not possible/not in scope with this card.

RobertoCravallo · February 4, 2024, 4:27pm

Hi Alex,

this is really sad, as your work and support are stellar. You gave me some very competent and helpful help/advice. The quality of your work speaks for itself, sure hope this project lives on. This is so much better than what HA has to offer.

All the best for you in the future, maybe this can be resolved somehow to your satisfaction. I believe you leaving, is a huge loss to this community.

All the best from Germany,

Robert

maijo366 · February 6, 2024, 12:42pm

Hy Community,
Is it possible to combine 2 different units in only one graph (line).

type: custom:history-explorer-card
cardName: historycard-14420595
defaultTimeRange: 5d
combineSameUnits: true
uiLayout:
  toolbar: show
  selector: hide
header: []
entityOptions:
  sensor.epex_spot_price_ct_per_kwh:
    color: blue
  sensor.energiegesamtverbrauch_aktuell:
    color: green

Sorry, if I missed a comment.

Thanks

HermesHonshappo · February 8, 2024, 4:28pm

Hello Maijo. You should read the first post. I don’t think this is the place where you can get help.

Hey Alex. I’m a heavy user of the card, and am sorry to see you go. Thanks for all the work done. I’ll keep using your card for as long as it works

Thanks Petro for the clarifications. Takes some guts to recognize that you’ve been acting less than optimal.

I was not aware of this feud, since I don’t follow forums. Typically because of this kind of flame wars that always seem to happen some times, and where people leave because they just don’t feel at home anymore (and probably never will again). (Side-story: I have two friends that won’t talk to one another anymore, and hate each other’s guts. Before that, they shared a common passion for 10 years, and talked and joked in-person at the forum get-together each year. All this because they started talking politics over a forum And I’m not talking teenagers, they’re both in their fifties)

Alex, I wish you good luck in your future endeavors, and thanks a million again for this very useful card.

erkr · February 10, 2024, 9:28pm

Hi all,

I was wondering of there is enough enthusiasm to revive this great card. There are places like this one GitHub - rejuvenate/rejuvenate: Dead Repositories Revived by the Community, where abounded projects are given a second life.

I’m not knowledgable to code myself, but willing to moderate and help testing. Bottom line reviving needs enough members motivated to contribute to the card.

So if you would like to contribute, let me know. This great card deserves a chance

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 8, 2024, 6:42pm

I wonder if it is possible to use any int values for a “defaultTimeRange” option?

type: custom:history-explorer-card
cardName: abcdef
graphs:
  - type: timeline
    entities:
      - entity: sun.sun
defaultTimeRange: 20h

In my tests only some values were really accepted.
For instance:

no way this is 20 hrs, more likely ~~~48 hrs~~. (sorry - 24 hrs probably)

Hacked it by forced calling “setTimeRangeMinutes” in “setTimeRangeFromString”.

arganto · March 8, 2024, 9:30pm

Should work. Is this the only graph you are using? And did you reload?

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 8, 2024, 9:49pm

Only, others are commented. Besides, it has a unique “cardName”.
So, I believe this make the card independent.

Reload (menu), refresh (F5) - nothing helps.

I suspected that inputted value of “defaultTimeRange” is kind of filtered.
Check this code with my comments:

    setTimeRangeFromString(range, update = false, t_center = null)
    {
        ......
        # t = minutes from "range"
        const h = Math.floor(t / 60);  # h = hours

        if( h > 0 )
            this.setTimeRange(this.validateRange(h, true), update, t_center);
        else
            this.setTimeRangeMinutes(t, update, t_center);
    }

and “validateRange” using some “ranges” array.
I had only a quick glance, not a proper analysis - and I made a suggestion that the “validateRange” does a filtering.
At least after removing 3 lines starting from “if” I gained a desired output ))).

arganto · March 8, 2024, 10:20pm

Deleted for the moment. Did it wrong.

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 9, 2024, 7:13am

History-explorer-card is the only card I know which allows to show a timeline (a horizontal bar-like graph) with a possibility to hide time scale (a picture of a stock history-graph is below):

Lines & text may be made transparent by card-mod; but the text causes a timeline bar to have different margins dependently on:

available width;
current time;
hours_to_show.

As for my hacky “fix” of the history-explorer-card: excluding the “validateRange” function from “setTimeRangeFromString” only allows to bypass that “filtering” for the “defaultTimeRange” option; for other use-cases like “period selected by a magnifier” the “filtering” still works, it’s OK.

Heelderpeel · March 10, 2024, 5:12pm

Hello, anyone familiar with this problem and especially how to solve it. this is the same sensor above and below.
the red value is consumption, the green value is generation. the value of the generation is correct, and if there is no generation the red value is also correct.
In the Home assistant graph the values are always correct.

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 10, 2024, 7:17pm

Which entity from the 2nd card is shown on the 1st card with a standard history-graph?

Heelderpeel · March 10, 2024, 8:42pm

The red one, (look at the yellow arrow in the yaml)

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 10, 2024, 9:08pm

I asked because different names are displayed on these cards.

Heelderpeel · March 11, 2024, 8:54am

Yes, that’s right, I changed the name in the bottom graph to a more friendly name

Ildar_Gabdullin · March 11, 2024, 9:08am

So, an entity with this entity_id

has this friendly name, right?

Just to be 100% sure that these are same entity.

giaur500 · April 26, 2024, 9:15am

Shame, it’s not maintained anymore. Is there any active fork or alternative? The only I can find is Plotly and Apex, but it’s more general purpose charts, not dedicated for history data.