Home Assistant Logbook Tricks

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Here is a quick overview of how I use the Home Assistant Logbook for troubleshooting my automations and figuring out new ideas for things to automate.

The logbook has been around FOREVER. It was an early component built by Paulus himself when Home Assistant first came out. It was a reverse chronological account of the automations and events happening in your smart home. With the latest Nabu Casa subscription, you can even get reporting on commands issued from your Amazon echoes.

I have always been a huge fan of the logbook for troubleshooting. A stray light turns on at 2 am, you can review the logbook and discover if something triggered it at 1:59 am and then adjust your automations or automation logic as needed. It's a great way to really understand how Home Assistant is acting and reacting to its surroundings and sensors. The ability to click on the blue links and go directly to history is also a huge plus. Using this and filtering, you can determine all available states of a particular entity and then program automation and logic for it.

The Home Assistant logbook is a powerful tool for any home automator looking for insights and details around sensors and automations. The logbook often answers the 'Why' something turned on or didn't in our Smart Home.

You can read about all of this and more on the Website: https://www.vcloudinfo.com/2020/05/home-assistant-logbook.html

Find all the source code for my Smart House (and Device lists) on my Github Page : https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig#devices

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? About this channel: My name is Carlo. I've been running Home Assistant for a BUNCH of years. Almost from the very beginning actually. This channel is focused on bringing what I have implemented at my own house to you so that you can bring it to your house. The channel will be a mix of reviews, tutorials, and inspiration. It is a companion to my GitHub site that holds all the code for my Smart Home and my main site where I keep the more in-depth technical writings. I hope you will enjoy the videos and consider subscribing.

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