Soon available in Home Assistant, planned or just a workaround
Thanks to the active community, Home Assistant is constantly being developed and improved, but Home Assistant is still not (completely) perfect. On this page I collect missing functions, features or little things that have potential for improvement.
Planned features and functions: in progress
Home Assistant; Charts: Scroll- Zoom; Development status
Something is happening: the long-neglected history in Home Assistant is getting numerous improvements. With the 2025-01 release, the charts are getting a rudimentary zoom function, among other things. Rudimentary, because currently only one chart can be zoomed when there are several charts. With the 2025.2 release, the chart library was migrated from chart.js to Apache Echart, as the chart library Chart.js originally used was increasingly reaching its performance limits. ECharts offers extended... ... continue reading
Notable changes outside the release notes
Home Assistant 2025.3
- Numerous small improvements and performance optimizations to the charts: e.g.: Possibility to zoom a certain area by selection available again: Add drag to zoom & double click
- One of the key new features of the 2025.3 release is the ability to create headers for Lovelance cards. I have to admit that I don't quite understand the advantage of this, as similar functionality could already be put together before the release with a section, a heading and a Markdown card.
History & energy dashboard: last hour, week, 30 days
In December 2024, I submitted a pull request on GitHub to add additional time spans to Home-Assistant's history and energy dashboard. The time spans are expected to be part of the 2025.3 release. ... continue reading
Home Assistant 2025.2 - Construction site charts
- Change the range of the statistics charts via date selection: Statistics chart: Date / time selection
- Switch to a new graph library Echarts: Possibility to zoom a certain area by selection no longer available.
- Another change suggestion that I submitted to Home Assistant has now been implemented. In the "More info" view of text sensors, not only the history but also the logbook is now displayed. This change has been part of Home Assistant since the 2025.2 release. Commit: https://github.com/home-assistant/frontend/pull/22997
Home Assistant 2025.1
- Back and forward buttons for the history also for mobile devices
- Sankey-Chart-Card
Home Assistant 2024.12
- Back and next buttons for history and logbook
- After essential details were missing in the HA automation traces, I created my first feature request on Github in April 2024. Due to a lack of response, I set up an HA development environment in September and adapted the source code myself. The September pull request was then moved to the DEV version in mid-November, see HA Automation: Step details (Traces)
Current development areas
Energy Dashboard - Cards also for other dashboards?
The positioning of the Energy Dashboard in Home Assistant is currently being discussed. ... continue reading
Role access control in Home Assistant: Why it's important.
The lack of role-based access control (RBAC) in Home Assistant is repeatedly criticized: The top topic in the 2024 Month of "What the heck?". Role-based access control could be used to restrict access to certain devices or location data for certain family members or guests. RBAC could not only make Home Assistant more secure, but also accessible for larger installations. ... continue reading