Logbook

The logbook component provides a different perspective on the history of your house by showing all the changes that happened to your house in reverse chronological order. See the demo for a live example. It depends on the recorder component for storing the data. This means that if the recorder component is set up to use e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL as data store, the logbook component does not use the default SQLite database to store data.

To enable the logbook in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
logbook:

Configuration variables:

• exclude (Optional): Configure which components should not create logbook entries.
  • entities (Optional): The list of entity ids to be excluded from creating logbook entries.
  • domains (Optional): The list of domains to be excluded from creating logbook entries.
• include (Optional): Configure which components should create logbook entries.
  • entities (Optional): The list of entity ids to be included from creating logbook entries.
  • domains (Optional): The list of domains to be included from creating logbook entries.

If you want to exclude messages of some entities or domains from the logbook just add the exclude parameter like:

# Example of excluding domains and entities from the logbook
logbook:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.last_boot
      - sensor.date
    domains:
      - sun
      - weblink

In case you just want to see messages from some specific entities or domains use the include configuration:

# Example to show how to include only the listed domains and entities in the logbook
logbook:
  include:
    domains:
      - sensor
      - switch
      - media_player

You can also use the include list and filter out some entities or domains with an exclude list. Usually this makes sense if you define domains on the include side and filter out some specific entities.

# Example of combining include and exclude configurations
logbook:
  include:
    domains:
      - sensor
      - switch
      - media_player
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.last_boot
      - sensor.date

Exclude Events

Entities customized as hidden are excluded from the logbook by default, but sometimes you want to show the entity in the UI and not in the logbook. For instance you use the sensor.dateto show the current date in the UI, but you do not want an logbook entry for that sensor every day. To exclude these entities just add them to the exclude > entities list in the configuration of the logbook.

To exclude all events from a whole domain add it to the exclude > domain list. For instance you use the sun domain only to trigger automations on the `azimuth attribute, then you possible are not interested in the logbook entries for sun rise and sun set.

Custom Entries

It is possible to add custom entries to the logbook by using the script component to fire an event.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
script:
  add_logbook_entry:
    alias: Add Logbook
    sequence:
      - service: logbook.log
        data_template:
          name: Kitchen
          message: is being used
          # Optional
          entity_id: light.kitchen
          domain: light