Zwave "last seen" in log

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hi,

In the log , I see constant “last seen” lines , which brings me to the following questions:

  • How can I excluded these messages from the log ? (I think it was something with the “recorder”) for all entities ?

  • Can I use this in some kind of automation which checks the “last seen” of all devices and reports if any of those are older then a week

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That is a new entity as of 2024.2. You should be able to exclude it from the logbook via configuration, and automate as usual using a state trigger, or template sensor, etc.

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I’m experiencing this too. I’m having a hell of a time trying to hide it from the UI, guess I should probably try YAML

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If you don’t want the functionality, just disable the entity then.

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That’s what I’ll probably end up doing. Although it definitely could be useful for future automations, the sheer amount of updates is definitely clogging up my logbook

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AFAIK, excluding from the logbook is only possible from the YAML config. Would be a nice UI feature though.

Also, entities with a “unit of measurement” are automatically excluded from logbook in order to avoid issues like this. Not sure of “date” is a valid unit of measurement, but maybe this entity could be excluded by the integration.

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You can vote for this:

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I have the same thing, but it started 2 days ago and slows down HA (rPi4).

I definitly pressed the vote button, but why would anyone like "last seen"to completely flood the log and slow down the system?

I’m disabling the entities because if it’s a new entity since 2024.2, I will not notice not having it, but it seems more like a bug than anything else to me, logging multiple non-events per second)

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Edit: na I was correct after all… Sorry for all confusing stuff…

I have added a few lines in configure.yaml that seems to remove this from the log/recorder - this may och may not be the correct solution, so be aware:

recorder:
exclude:
entity_globs:
- sensor.*_last_seen

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And if you want them in the History but just not the Logbook, do this (confirmed to be working):

logbook:
  exclude:
    entity_globs:
    - sensor.*_last_seen
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What’s the benefit? Is there a reason to not turn them off? I can’t think of a way that I would use them, but I assume that code got written for purpose.