The other day, @tifriis@sh.itjust.works posted an awesome article about Zigbee network performance and it brought attention to something I was unaware of, which is that my devices aren’t supposed to shout all day, everyday about doing mostly nothing. I immediately followed the advice in the article and tried to debounce everything. But then everything stopped working like it should 😂 Can the community pool your collective knowledge and walk me through debouncing so I can not get MQTT spam but still have all my motion, presence and temperature sensors work please?

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    found my database grew in size very quickly

    Hold me! I’m dealing with that and haven’t figured out how to fix it. How does the templating thing work? All my devices are Tuya devices, so you can imagine how quickly my database balloons up.

    • CondorWonder@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      First thing - exclude recording of the devices. My method was to use a glob so I name devices/entity IDs specifically and they don’t get recorded (in my case I used f_ as in “filtered” so devices become like “F Source Presence”), but you can add specific entities or use your own glob. In configuration.yaml I have this:

      recorder:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.excluded_entity_1
    # AND/OR this (then of course rename entities as needed)
    entity_globs:
      # exclude all sensor entities that start with f_
      - sensor.f_*

      Then I created templates for my presence sensors, that just copy the state so I get history (yaml here, but can do through UI now too in the Helpers section, the import part is the template in the state key below):

      template:
  - binary_sensor:
      - name: Real presence
        unique_id: my_presence
        state: >-
          {{ states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence}}
        availability: >-
          {{
            not (
              states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence') == 'unknown' or
              states('binary_sensor.f_source_presence') == 'unavailable'
            )
          }}
        device_class: presence

      You could also use a statistics sensor to get a moving average for numeric values and get history from them too (and reduce the noise by reducing the precision and having a larger time window). This is also available through the UI - Helpers.