Climate History Card: Monitor temperatures, setpoints and HVAC activity on Home Assistant

Climate History Card Home Assistant is at the center of the news: In the world of home automation, having precise control and a clear vision of the functioning of your air conditioning system is essential. For Home Assistant users, a new resource promises to make this task easier: theClimate History Card. This dashboard card was designed to offer an immediate comparison between the actual recorded temperature, the set point set and the activity of the HVAC equipment, all on a single intuitive timeline. The goal is to provide users with a powerful tool to analyze and optimize home comfort and energy efficiency.

What is the Climate History Card?

The Climate History Card is a customized dashboard card for Home Assistant that allows you to comparatively view measured temperatures, set points and the activity of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) devices. Unlike standard displays, this card presents the measured temperature as a continuous line, while the setpoints are shown as steps, clearly highlighting the desired variations. You can add multiple zone monitoring, including outdoor temperature and a variety of secondary data such as humidity. Furthermore, the card can shade the periods in which the HVAC equipment was active, offering a complete view of the climate trend and energy consumption related to air conditioning.

Main features of the Climate History Card

Comparative display of temperatures and set points

The main strength of the Climate History Card lies in its ability to directly compare the actual temperature of the environment with the desired one (setpoint). The graphical representation clearly distinguishes between these two values, allowing you to quickly identify deviations and understand how the system is reacting to the settings.

Monitoring of HVAC activity

The card allows you to view when the HVAC equipment has come into operation. This information, represented graphically, is crucial for evaluating the efficiency of the system and for correlating the system's activity with temperature variations or with specific commands given.

Integration with Home Assistant date selector

The Climate History Card integrates seamlessly with Home Assistant's date picker, allowing users to easily navigate between calendar days to analyze historical temperatures and HVAC activity. Alternatively, it can show a sliding time frame.

Installation of the Climate History Card

Installation of the Climate History Card is managed via HACS (Home Assistant Community Store). Users can add it as a custom repository for dashboards by entering the project's GitHub repository URL. After installation, simply refresh your browser to make the card available. Inclusion in the default catalog is pending, but installation via custom repository is already active.

https://github.com/shogun301/climate-history-card

Basic configuration

Climate History Card Home Assistant - A minimal example configuration for the Climate History Card, using dummy entities, shows how to define zones and their entities for temperature, setpoint and HVAC activity status:

type: custom:climate-history-card
title: Climate history
zones:
  - name: Office
    temperature: sensor.office_temperature
    setpoint: sensor.office_setpoint
    active: binary_sensor.office_hvac_active

It is essential to replace dummy entities (such assensor.office_temperature) with the real ones of your Home Assistant system. The temperature unit configured on the card will control the labels displayed, but the temperature sources must use consistent units. The project is released under the Apache 2.0 license and user feedback on configuration and readability with different thermostat setups is greatly appreciated for futureimprovements.

Source:Community Home Assistant