Home Assistant Recorder Integration

Guide for integrations that work with historical data, statistics, and the recorder.

When to Use Recorder Features

• Statistics: Energy monitoring, long-term trends
• History exclusion: High-frequency sensors, diagnostic entities
• Custom statistics: External data sources
• History queries: Historical analysis features

Excluding from Recorder

Exclude noisy entities from history to reduce database size:

# In your entity class
class MyDiagnosticSensor(SensorEntity):
    """Sensor that shouldn't be recorded."""