Home Assistant: integrated dashboards
Standard dashboards make it quick and easy to get started with Home Assistant. The dashboards available in every Home Assistant installation: "Logbook" and "History", offer a universal presentation of entities over time. Special dashboards such as "Map", "Media", "To-Do Lists" and the "Energy Dashboard" are designed for specific application purposes.
The start page, called "Overview", is automatically compiled from all available sensors. You can create your own dashboards based on this overview:"Take control", or under "Dashboards" settings.
This article is dedicated to the existing, integrated dashboards. The obvious highlight of the integrated dashboards is undoubtedly the "Energy dashboard":
Energy dashboard
For the display of electricity or water consumption can be visualized very easily via the energy dashboard. Those who own a PV system or a balcony power plant can also display its production and surplus:
In order for the energy dashboard to visualize the data, it is sufficient to add the corresponding consumption meters:
Electricity grid, solar panels, battery storage, gas consumption, water consumption, or other individual devices ...
Details on how the energy dashboard works, see: HA history: more than 10 days? Long Time Statistic (LTS)
For details on the setup, see:
Energy dashboard: example Fronius Gen24 & BYD storage
The Home Assistant Energy Dashboard shows all relevant energy data in a complete overview. Performance data from a wide range of manufacturers or components can be used as the basis for the dashboard. Only sensors with the corresponding performance data are required to supply the interface with data. ... continue reading
History
The historical data of the individual devices can be visualized in the course:
Detailed sensor data is available for 10 days, beyond that only long-term statistical data is available, depending on the entity. How long the sensor data is retained can be configured with the following setting:
Setting: purge_keep_days integer (optional, default: 10) in the configuration.yaml file:
recorder:
purge_keep_days: 10See, www.home-assistant.io/integrations/recorder/, or to use a database other than SQLite: Home Assistant database MySQL vs. SQLite and to connect to an InfluxDB, see: InfluxDB: Time series database - Docker and for visualizing: Grafana: Docker - Visualize data and define alarms.
The history is currently a somewhat neglected core function of Home Assistant
Although both the energy dashboard and the history could offer synergies in terms of functionality, the history has been neglected and new functions have mostly only been developed for the energy dashboard. The energy dashboard received numerous innovations, while one of the core functions, the history, remained without any significant improvements for some time. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to set an example and tried to adapt the source code of Home-Assistant myself. As a first step, I implemented Forward and back buttons.
New: Home Assistant history: previous and next buttons
Previous and Next buttons in Home Assistant: My pull request in Github was accepted and has been secretly and quietly migrated to the Home Assistant release 2024.12.The buttons are currently not visible on mobile devices. The reason for this is that there is not enough space and the layout still needs to be adapted. ... continue reading
Home Assistant history: missing scroll-zoom function
The integrated Home Assistant history does not yet have a scroll and zoom function for the history. ... continue reading
HA history: missing status history
There are some little things about Home Assistant that I can't quite understand. One of these little things is the display of the history diagram when clicking on the details of certain entities. If the entities have neither a numeric nor a binary value, the history shows the changes in color in such a narrow bar that not all values can be read. ... continue reading
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