Preventing logbook/history saves

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I have created a template sensor as part of a bigger project, and I have noticed that when my sensor updates, it creates a logbook entry, and keeps a history of the changes as well.
Normally that’s handy, but in this case, I just don’t care about the historical data of this sensor.

Is there a way to tell Home Assistant to not save the data? I’d rather not be filling my disk with useless data.

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Hi Plasma,
This maybe?

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Thanks, @Sir_Goodenough !!
This is EXACTLY what I needed :slight_smile:

For future googlers:
I put this code into my configuration.yaml file:

recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.clockfacedisplay

Then restarted Home Assistant.
Once it restarted, I no longer saw any of the template sensor’s updates in the Logbook area, and when I viewed the entity’s history, it showed that the updates had stopped - even though the sensor was displaying the current and correct data.
This is perfect for what I needed

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