Beautiful data visualisation in Home Assistant

Data visualisation may not be important for automating your home but it can greatly help you understand your sensor data . While I must agree with @greatscottlab that Home Assistant is lacking internal data visualisation tools, HACS on the other hand has lot more available options.

Today we will look at 5 HACS data visualisation components to make your data speak for itself.

Mini Graph Card
Apex Charts
Plotly Graph Card
Sankey Chart
Horseshoe Card

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Data visualisation in Home Assistant
01:34 - Mini Graph Card
04:57 - Apex Charts
07:45 - Plotly Graph Card
10:40 - Sankey Chart
13:24 - Horseshoe Card
16:11 - Final thoughts

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[AmoebeLabs]

A nice overview of available visualizations and very nice to see you included my card in your video 😀

[makeitworktech]

I just recorded a video where I mentioned Apex Charts Card! This is a great subject to cover! Great video, BT!

[AllenRobberson]

I love how you find stuff that I would never think of. Love your videos so much.

[clairerovic]

Like always, really enjoyed this. So glad you showed horseshoe as it does look clean especially when you want to add secondary data.

[Tntdruid]

So many cool add-ons 😄 Thanks for the quick guide for them 👍

[Bruno_AFK]

I'm glad that someone from Croatia is into HA and automation systems. Good job :)

[kerbalette]

Thankyou for showcasing all of these. I had no idea there was that many graphs

[chrisrosenkreuz]

thank you for not using a bell chime when suggesting subscription on screen. I love you for this (as well as your top notch content, ofc)

[Einstine]

Those are some awesome additions to my system. Thank you!

[ireklebiodzik]

Thanks for showing some new components which are so powerful. By the way, you forget about two native components of HA :) Sensor and gauge. Looking forward for next videos.

[MrDenisJoshua]

So nice this video, I like presentations of HA cards.
Thanks a lot

[iainhay]

I’m very fond of the mini graph card, extremely useful. My smart home system really suffers with the lack of attention I spend on the front end, I really must solve that! Very helpful video, time for me to knuckle down and sort it I think 👍

[SlackerLabs]

Awesome! I might need to make some of these.

[davidlangley]

I love the Apex Charts card, can be hugely complex, but trial and error gives awsome results, as well as historical data it can also display off-set day's, this is great for future weather data.

[ianwilliams]

very useful stuff. thank you for your work

[Claudiu.]

Thank you for this inspiration and all the others you showed so far. I'm going to try out the horseshoe card with the gauge and data inside it. Currently occupying 2 columns to show energy data, when they should in theory easily fit inside a single one. Cheers and keep up the good work!

[johnnynobels]

Great and inspiring video. As a beginner, till now I didnt yet looked into graphs. This gives a real good start. Would appreciatie to know more about how long sensor data are storend, eventually how to prolong that storage.

[SmartHomeJunkie]

Thanks again Andrej! Always great to use these. I also used Grafana for a while, but because you cannot easily show the graphs of Grafana on your dashboard I'm not using it anymore.

[romanykemp]

Good job on this video. Wished I had watched this last week when I started playing around with creating lovelace dashboards. This issue where the gui editor may or may not find a custom card - ran into that last week and wasted time on why. Why do you need to refresh your browser after a card download - just simple things that you.took.the.time.to.explain!

[EsotericArctos]

I think it is good having these visualisations in HACS and not cluttering up the main Home Assistant core. A lot of people doing Home Automation don't want a lot of graphs, and a lot don't even have a dashboard. Better to keep the core HA less cluttered and have them focus on the important stuff, and have the community do the visualisations like this. It just works so well this way and allows someone to focus on the graphing, rather than it being bundled in with a lot of other things