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When I open my Activity log, all I see is "Time changed" recorded every minute. In the attached screenshot a lot of stuff happened just now, otherwise it would be only Time Changed. Is there a way to not to record Time events into the activity log?

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[–] MaceyDay@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I had this when I added time and date sensors. In your configuration.yaml, exclude those entities from the log book.

logbook:
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.time
      - sensor.date
      - sensor.date_time
[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This only hides the entries from the logbook, but they're still being saved to database taking up disk space.

I would go further and exclude them from the recorder.

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assuming you’ve configured recorder to include them (or all entities).

[–] chaospatterns@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's a safe assumption given the post is about entries in the logbook and that depends on the recorder.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Appreciate you taking the time to share this, have a great weekend.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have the same since I have the time integration set up as you do. But I have so many activities happening that a time change every minute is drowned and disappears in the list quickly.

So my solution is to add more add-ons and integrations to drown out the time.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Brilliant solution

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago
  • Activities changed: Activity was added
  • Activities changed: Activity was added
  • Activities changed: Activity was added
  • Activities changed: Activity was added
  • Activities changed: Activity was added
  • Activities changed: Activity was added [...]
[–] curled@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

I don't know how to solve it, but I can tell you that this isn't normal behaviour, I have no such thing in my activity log.

Do you have a helper entity for time or something?