I have been unable to find a reliable “How to” tutorial on how to do this. I have found a few things that refer to 4 different databases, but no indication that a laymen like myself can see to say of they are installed with recorder… And I can’t even seem to find the recorder integration anyway. I…

You only need the recorder docs. HA has one DB (which is SQLite by default, but could be MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, or others). In there, there are the main state tables and the long-term stats storage (LTS). State history is controlled by the recorder’s retention period. You can include/exclude ent…

First off let me take the time to thank you for replying, however, I am not sure it is helpful. You see, I already took a look at that, and that is what is confusing me. It says its and internal integration, and when I go there I am not sure I understand that. When I try and add the integration, …

[image] How to keep your recorder database size under control Community Guides Note: This guide was written for an earlier version of Home Assistant (around 2021). Since then, changes have happened, but this guide hasn’t been updated (yet). Please be aware your…

If you can see the history of any entity, you have recorder running. It is enabled by default if you haven’t messed with default_config: If you don’t know what that is you probably haven’t. It tells you right in those recorder docs that if you want to change the default values for recorder (and a…

Okay, I think I am beginning to understand now. I hate editing yaml files manually, I have always been a GUI guy. SO from quick scanning of the new information I have I want to be sure I understand correctly. I can set the keeps days to as much as I want, but can’t set it for specific devices (Kee…

[image] jazzyisj: So the first question really is what data are you trying to keep for longer than the default 10 days and why? You’re overcomplicating things right now. Take it step by step. Answer this question and I’ll try and point you in the right direction. But to answer the question…

You make a good point. I should have answered your question, and I will do the best as I can without rambling on. I have, more then once wanted to look back at the location history of a tracked device. I would be perfectly happy if this data was never deleted so I can look back on it 2 years late…

[image] ShadowWizard1: I have worked with a few, and in my experience (outside of HA) the database can be Gigabytes in size and nothing slows down HA can with some sensors easily create gigabytes of data and it is true if you have the hardware resources then databases can be quite big with no…

[image] ShadowWizard1: Or is there another integration or addon that is more “Mass data storage” friendly to keep track of “everything all the time” Check out the influxdb add-on, a database explicitly designed for time-series data.

Home Assistant wasn’t designed to be an efficient data archival system, it was designed to be an efficient home automation platform ie to do things - right now. Users who want what you seem to be looking for (save everything forever) are an extremely small subset of the user base. How many people …

Increase retention times for things like power usage, on off functions, etc

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