Targets and Charts

Targets and Charts

Target types

Advanced History uses Home Assistant's native target picker and supports:

• Areas — all eligible entities assigned to an area.
• Devices — all eligible entities belonging to a device.
• Entities — individual Home Assistant entities.

You can combine target types and select more than one target at a time. Duplicate resolved entities are automatically removed.

Temporarily hiding targets

The original Home Assistant target chips mirror the chart legend's show/hide behaviour without changing your selection:

• Select the body of a target chip to hide its series from the chart.
• Select the muted chip again to show its series.
• Hiding an area or device hides all series contributed by that target.
• The chip's close icon still removes the target completely.

Visibility is saved with the current chart, bookmarks, chart History, Undo and Redo.

Removing targets

• Select the close icon on a target chip to remove it.
• Open the target picker and deselect targets.
• Use Remove all selections in the header to clear everything.

Before a non-empty chart is cleared, it is saved to the chart History list. Removing the final target also resets the date selector to Today and disables comparison.

Entity names and areas

When multiple entities have the same friendly name, it can be difficult to tell them apart. Advanced History appends the entity's area name unless that area is already included in the friendly name.

Numeric and state graphs

Resolved entities are separated automatically:

• Numeric entities appear in Numeric history.
• Non-numeric entities appear in State history using a state timeline.

Both graphs follow the same Energy date range. Current graph settings and supported entity-specific options are passed to Statistics Graph Chart Card.

Entity safety limit

Area and device targets can resolve to many entities. Maximum entities in the integration configuration limits the number shown to protect recorder and browser performance. When the limit is reached, Advanced History displays a notice.

Hidden registry entities are excluded unless Include hidden entities is enabled.