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by brikym 506 days ago
According to the post HA uses sqlite for sensor data. Why not use a temporal database like InfluxDB, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics etc?
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dengolius 504 days ago
+1 I also cteated homeassistant-addon-victorialogs[1] as well as homeassistant-addon-victoriametrics[2].

[1]: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics-Community/homeassistant-a... [2]: https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics-Community/homeassistant-a...

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mvip 506 days ago
Author here. You can use influx. That’s what I’m doing. It’s just that HA doesn’t use thet by default (which is sensible for most use cases tbh).
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