Strange history statistics

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I’ve started to use history_stats sensors to keep track of how long time I heat my pool, fill water etc. Introduced this a couple of days ago and I’ve been happy with what I’ve seen until this morning.

Right now my sensor.poolheating_daily shows more than 7hours, but the heating has not been on since midnight. As far as I understand, history_stats just sums up history date for the entity used as the base for the measurement.

- platform: history_stats
    name: Poolheating daily
    entity_id: switch.poolheating
    state: "on"
    type: time
    start: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
    end: "{{ now() }}"

The history graph of switch.poolheating looks like this:

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How do I end up with +7hr as my daily figure of pool heating?

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I can mention my other history_stats sensors present correct values.

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What version of Home Assistant are you on?

There were a bunch of fixes applied recently.

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I’m on 2022.6.6. I’ll make a try with 2022.6.7 and see if it helps.

4

2022.6.7 fixed the problem! Thanks!

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Unfortunately it seems like my problem is back again. I’m on 2022.6.7 and I have not made any changes in my definition of my history_stat sensors. But all of a sudden my sensor that keeps track of pool water circulation presents 0 this morning, even if the circulation was on for 4hr this night.

History gives the pump turned on 00:00:14 and off at 04:00:15. On/off is triggered by energy price, but as far as I understand history_stat just sums up historic data. So it should not really matter what triggers on/off of the actual sensor historic_stat looks at.

It is just this historic_stat sensor that fails. My others are just fine. Could it be related to the on time happens very close to midnight?

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Unfortunately history statistics keeps bothering me. It seems like data for daily usage becomes wrong if the measured entity is “on” over midnight. Exactly the same problem as I reported in my first post in this thread. But now this happens for another sensor measuring how long time the switch controlling the pool water filling is on each day.

I have a this sensor defined:

 - platform: history_stats
    name: Waterfill daily
    entity_id: switch.poolwater
    state: "on"
    type: time
    start: "{{ now().replace(hour=0, minute=0, second=0) }}"
    end: "{{ now() }}"

Tonight, the switch was open less than 5 minutes aroung midnight:

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I expect my history statistics should present 3m14s for July 27th and 22s for July 28th. But it continues to count all day ( today) even if the switch turned of 22s after midnight. Right now it looks like this:

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Am I doing something wrong here, or is there a bug in history stats?

I’m on 2022.7.5, but I can’t see any correction made in 2022.7.6 or 2022.7.7 in this area, so I doubt an update will solve this.

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Nope. That looks broken.

If this issue does not match your issue, open a new one with exactly the info you have posted in your last post:

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Ok, your proposed filter in the github link does not seem to work. Gives a huge amount of issues. However, I found this issue that seems to be very close to what I have observed. However, this issue is closed and I think it should be reopened instead of creating a new one. This is the issue I refer to:

I can’t reopen this issue, so if someone can help out and include a reference to what I write above, it would be nice. Many thanks in advance!

Edit: A new issue reported!