WTH can’t I zoom in or out on history graphs

Missing history zoom functionality had been already one of the top 5 WTH in year 2022. Being able to analyse your history data in a fast and efficient way is one of the key elements for a home automation system. Hopefully we will see this one day in the core (custom history Explorer card shows it is possible). Thank you :slight_smile:

Link to old WTH can't I zoom in or out on history graphs - #19 by vision2003

There is the quite mature history-explorer-graph, unfortunately not developed any further.
But if you’d ask me - this is how a standard, built in graph display should look like.

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Webrtc was added to the core, which was a great decision, the same thing should be done with history explorer. Analysing data is a key functionality, on other platforms like openhab dynamic history view is standard since a long time. Keeping thumbs pressed!

I’d always welcome if anyone in our community can help replace our current chart.js with something that allows browsing through time (and also less ugly).

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I think this post is making the same mistake as the original one from 2022, which is just focusing on zooming in/out of the history, what I think is needed is a completely revamped history, like the one in alexarch21’s project (GitHub - alexarch21/history-explorer-card: A card for Home Assistant Lovelace for exploring the history of your entities interactively and in real time.), unfortunately abandoned, although completely functional in the SpangleLabs fork I’m currently using (GitHub - SpangleLabs/history-explorer-card: A card for Home Assistant Lovelace for exploring the history of your entities interactively and in real time.)

If you try it you can completely forget about the tedious and not very functional original Home Assistant history, this work is incredible and it’s just how the HA history should look like

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