Warning about "exclude" deprecated in history.yaml

Configuration
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I’m getting warning messages about “exclude” being deprecated in hisotry.yaml. I’m wondering if there is a way then to keep things from being included in history. As an example, my car reports back to Home Assistant. When I look at my dashboard(s) I want to see the current value, but have no interest in the history. As an example, the odometer constantly updates as I drive and that causes (or at least used to) cause the database to get huge because of all the discrete values.

Thanks in advance for any/all suggestions and advice.

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Then exclude them from recorder.

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Just to verify, if I exclude them from recorder, I’ll still be able to access the current value?

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Yes, you will still be able to see the current status.

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Yes. Only state history will be unavailable.

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FYI, you weren’t actually excluding anything from your database before. Have a read of this:

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Thanks much! I had recorder and history flip-flopped in my brain.

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Will they still show in the logbook?

I’d excluded some from history because I didn’t need state, but was still useful to see they triggered a change in the logbook. I thought when I completely excluded from recorder it didn’t note what triggered changes in logbook either?

For example, I don’t care about the history of every automation on/off, but I DO care about whether it ran for debugging.

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The logbook depends on the recorder.