history-graph is shown for an entity excluded from Recorder

[ildar170975]

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Describe the issue you are experiencing

2024.3 changed history-graph:
it started showing graphs for entities which were excluded from Recorder:

type: history-graph
entities:
  - entity: sensor.service_zero_value

The shown history could be absolutely wrong since this entity is not recorded.
Then there is no sense to show this history.

Earlier for not-recorded entities a history was shown only in case of NEW changes made while displaying the history.
Showing a past history based on a last value spanning a whole period is meaningless.

Describe the behavior you expected

Do not show past history for not-recorded entity.
Show only new changes if a user intentionally added this entity to history-graph or looks at a history in more-info.

Steps to reproduce the issue

as above

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2024.2.5

In which browser are you experiencing the issue with?

Chrome 122.0.6261.95

Which operating system are you using to run this browser?

Win10x64

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[Petro31]

HA has done this for a long time now in the more info page with excluded entities. I'm not surprised it does the same thing in history-graph.

[ildar170975]

I'm not surprised it does the same thing in history-graph.

Read my post again. In more info excluded entities did not have a history. It only started displayng when you have more-info open and a changing state in parallel.

Guess this new behaviour related to #19176.

[Petro31]

Read my post again.

I don't have to, I understand what you're saying. I'm pointing out that I would expect this to happen. No need to get testy.

[ildar170975]

But these words are not correct:

HA has done this for a long time now in the more info page with excluded entities.

Here is from 2024.2.5:

The entity is excluded. No history as expected.

2024.3:

And this is wrong because there is no info about what states were in the past.

[WarC0zes]

Hi,
I noticed the same behavior. I excluded entities from the recorder and before I didn't see anything in history. Since core 2024.3.0, I see entity history that is excluded.

example in my recorder.yaml :

  purge_keep_days: 3
  exclude:
    entity_globs:
      - sensor.*_linkquality

[ildar170975]

Some more from 2024.3:

input_number.test_number is excluded from Recorder.
Here a history from 01.03.
HA 2024.3 was installed 07.03.24.
The entity was changing almost every day since 01.03 - surely these changes were not recorded, but the graph wrongly shows us a constant value:

Let's add one more entity - let it be some input_boolean (also excluded from Recorder).
And we got a new look:

Adding a "ha_uptime" graph shows that this "starting of history" is some HA startup on 08.03 (even not the 1st run with 2024.3).

I say this is inconsistent & wrong.

[ildar170975]

2024.4.3:
If entity is excluded from Recorder - it is shown in History starting from the last HA reboot:

More-info shows only this "false recorded part":

Both graphs SEEM to not reflect that this entity could have changes within this period.
But may be there were NO CHANGES within this period actually?
So, let's change this entity.
Then reopen more-info:

The starting point on the graph - time of the last change.
It does not show the previous changes - as expected since the entity is excluded from Recorder.
So this graph seems to be CORRECT.

Reopen the History page described above:

The graph also seems to be CORRECT - it reflects the LAST known change.
If shown w/o other entities - also shown CORRECT:

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Test with input_boolean excluded from Recorder:
History - similar, starts from HA reboot:

More-info - similarly (starts from HA reboot):

Change the value, reopen more-info - it starts from the change's time (CORRECT):

And History - also starts with a change's time (CORRECT):

Finally, the current implementation seems to be CORRECT.
May be there were some changes which improved the implementation.
Or may be I made a mistake earlier...

Closing the issue.
Please let me know if I should reopen it.