Use wildcards for excude/include in recorder

Feature Requests
1

It would be a nice feature to be able to use wild cards when entering entity names in the exclude or include section of the recorder section of the config.yaml. Example: sensor.synology.* to select all the entities for the the synology integration, instead of typing in each one individually.

2

I thought about this feature since i started with HA 3 years ago and there where multiple FR’s about this.
I decided to use only includes i my recorder config.
So you can tinker around, and if all go’s well, add the entity to the history.

3

I have tinkered around. Some of these integrations have a ton of entities and having enter each one is a pain. That is why I submitted the request.

How do you do just includes, without excluding something? Doesn’t everything get included if you don’t do an exclude?. Can you give an example?

4

Here’s my recorder config.

db_url: !secret db_url
# purge_interval: 0 # Deprecated in 0.109
auto_purge: False
include:
  entities:
    # Media player
    #- media_player.fire_tv_1
    # Alerts
    - alert.bresser_timeout
    - ...
5

Thanks, I have stuff like that in mine. Still doesn’t solve my issue…

6

I think eventually it will be moved to the UI and you’ll get a table with a checkbox for every entity to record the data or not. But that is only my guess on the future of this.

7

that would work. Thanks

8

very late… but now recorder has support for entity_globs (not sure exactly when it was added). But the documentation is quite clear about it. Im just leaving this here for future reference.