My History for Home Assistant

A custom integration that provides a user-friendly sidebar panel to manage which entities are excluded from Home Assistant's history/recorder database.

📖 Overview

My History gives you a simple web interface to control what gets stored in your Home Assistant database. Instead of manually editing configuration.yaml and restarting, you can:

• Exclude entities from being recorded
• Set purge retention days

The integration generates a recorder_config.yaml file automatically and integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant's built-in recorder component.

✨ Features

• 🖥️ Sidebar Panel - A clean web interface accessible from your Home Assistant sidebar
• 📝 Entity Exclusion - Select which entities should NOT be recorded in history
• ⏱️ Purge Control - Set how many days of history to keep for excluded entities
• 🔧 Auto-Generated Config - Creates and updates recorder_config.yaml automatically
• 🎯 Works with Recorder - Fully compatible with Home Assistant's native recorder component

📦 Installation

HACS Installation (Recommended)

1. Ensure HACS is installed
2. Open HACS → Integrations
3. Click the three dots → Custom repositories
4. Add https://github.com/RadioactiveMan56/my_history (Category: Integration)
5. Click "Install" on My History
6. Restart Home Assistant

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest release from the [releases page][releases]
2. Copy the my_history folder to /config/custom_components/
3. Restart Home Assistant

⚙️ Configuration

Initial Setup

After installation:

1. Go to Settings → Devices & Services
2. Click + Add Integration
3. Search for "My History"
4. Complete the configuration flow:
   • Select entities to exclude from history (optional initially)
   • Set purge retention days (default: 30)

Configuration Options

The integration stores settings in recorder_config.yaml: