Make Recorder Logbook and History Includes avaialable for editing on the entities page

Feature Requests
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Like this:

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Great idea! :+1:

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Finally, please implement it

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The biggest issue I see is making it backwards compatible with yaml defined rules (of which I am usually a vocal supporter). I’m guessing this would be next to impossible.

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Wonderfull idea. It is so logical to me that I was looking to find these settings. I thought I was not smart enough to find them.

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I’d love see this implemented!!

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Great idea, these options could also appear on the entities pop-up like the Area does now.

:+1:

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I think there should be a migration. After the migration process, yaml config will be disabled

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dev team please make it happen…

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How would you handle domains, globs and excludes?
Sacrificing functionality for convenience is not the ways to go.

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:man_shrugging:

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Thanks for bumping this thread, I apparently missed it first time around. It’s got my vote!

I have a related (and possibly conflicting) FR to allow individual keep_days for each entity. I’ve also seen comments about the horrible database design HA uses, which as a former DBA I can confirm.

Maybe we need a “month of database” where fixes, updates and improvements for the database are discussed and a direction agreed upon. It seems this area gets very little development attention.

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domains could be exposed in the UI, excludes don’t need anything because entities would be unchecked by default.
I don’t know how it could be considered sacrificing functionality, it’s the same, just more convenient.

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Yes, if the default is to have entities unchecked, that would solve a lot of problems.

There could be a prompt or option when the entity is created, just as today we’re prompted to add entities to areas.

I had another thought, sort of a combination of this FR and the one I submitted (see above.) What if, instead of check boxes, the display in the OP allowed entry of keep_days for each entity?

Not everything needs to be retained for the same length of time. I may not care how often my living room light was turned on last week, but I do want to keep my heating system run time statistics for months.

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I think allowing for a retention setting is a great idea as well.

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Would love this as well to better track unwanted database usage. I had an uptime counter being recorded each second up to the millions. No real use case there. Was looking for a quick way to set this for all entities, but requires a lot of exclude/include work.

Still I think it would be possible to set it up in a similar way then e.g. Apple Homekit. If I recall correctly you can set first include/exclude based on categories (or domains), and in the next step click to exclude/include resp. Would be a nice interface to do it.

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That could be handled quite nicely, if it’s declared or covered by a glob in yaml then just disable the toggle in the entity settings

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I like to have this option as well.

I noticed i had many “unwanted” logging ( few examples below ).

- sensor.processor_use
- sensor.date
- sensor.date_time
- sensor.time
- sensor.time_date

I run home assistant on a RPI 3 connected to a database on my NAS. My nas had a lot of database activities all the time because of the above default enabled loggings. Excluding these entities using yaml is not a big issue and the DB activity dropped a lot but it would be really nice if i can just toggle it from the gui for each entity.

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Bumping for attention - this would be a really useful feature please!

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Agreed, would use this for sure!