Light bulb on hours

Many light bulbs are rated for some amount of hours (e.g. 15000 hours). With many light bulbs, I have a feeling that they die or malfunction way before this amount of hours is reached.
I would like the ability for a “hours on” counter.
For light switches that turn on multiple bulbs, this may be not so easy to implement. And also you would need a way to tell the system that a bulb was replaced.

15000 hours is about 18 months. A lot of people haven’t had Home Assistant running that long! :rofl:

Don’t forget to vote for your own feature request.

It’s actually more like 20 months, but that is only if they are on 24/7 which none of my bulbs are :slight_smile:
I’ve had Home Assistant for approximately 2 years, since I abandoned OpenHAB.

There is this History Stats - Home Assistant but that only lasys as long as your database records. Long term stats may hold the info.

I know that this can probably be dug out from history, but that’s exactly why I created a feature. For this to be useful it needs to be accessible and there needs to be a way to reset the counter when you replace a bulb.
Also in the case when you have 5 spots turn on with 1 lightswitch, how do you count hours for each of those bulbs?
It’s not something I want really bad, I just thought it might be a nice feature :slight_smile:

The vision perhaps needs to be wider. How many hours has my tractor been running? How many hours has my water pump done?

Not saying this is a bad idea, but why exclude minority sensors?