First, thank you to everyone who works on Home Assistant. I use it every day and love it. This is a small thing, but it would make History much nicer to use.
Most of the time I’m after something like “the last 5 minutes” or “the last 6 months”. Neither is a preset, so I end up clicking through the calendar and adjusting the time boxes by hand.
Suggestion: something like the AWS console’s date range picker, which has two modes:
- Relative: quick buttons (5m, 1h, 1d, 1w, 6M…) plus a custom “last [number] [unit]”. The range stays rolling, so “last 5 minutes” always means up to now, even after a refresh or in a saved link.
- Absolute: the current calendar, plus start and end date/times you can type in.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| [ Relative ] Absolute |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Quick ranges |
| [5m] [15m] [30m] [1h] [3h] [12h] [1d] [1w] [1M] [6M] |
| |
| Custom |
| Last [ 45 ] [ minutes v ] |
| |
| Showing the last 45 minutes, updating live |
| |
| [ Cancel ] [ Apply ] |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Relative [ Absolute ] |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| < November 2026 > |
| Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su |
| 1 |
| 2[ 3 4] 5 6 7 8 |
| 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
| ... |
| |
| Start [ 2026-11-03 ] [ 00:00 ] |
| End [ 2026-11-04 ] [ 20:00 ] |
| |
| Time zone (o) Local ( ) UTC |
| |
| [ Cancel ] [ Apply ] |
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Or, more simply: let us customise the preset list, for example:
quick_ranges:
- 5 minutes
- 6 hours
- 6 months
Thanks for reading, and thanks again for all the work that goes into HA! 