Given how far the HASS energy feature set has come, should I also be using influx DB?

[terse cliff]

I have a lot of power sensing hardware feeding data into home assistant. Solar generation, individual circuit monitoring, and edge device monitoring. Now it's time to connect it all to the energy portion of home assistant. Should I also be using Influx DB or just let hass store it? What are the pros and cons of just letting HASS store it... ?

[sharp kayak]

letting hass store it will be less fuss, less error prone and more efficient

I wouldn't bother

you can use influxdb as a backup for high fidelity data storage though

HA will only store hourly statistics for anything beyond the purge window (long term statistics)

[hidden trout]

Then the main question is, are you planning to use another dashboard (like Grafana)? As HA itself does nothing with the stored data in InfluxDB.

Personally, I didn't bother anymore 🙂

[solemn pine]

^ same for me

[terse cliff]

Thanks for the perspectives! I kind of reached the "let HASS do it and don't worry about it anymore" and it sounds like taking that approach at least initially is reasonable

thank you!

how can I learn how long the "short versus long-term" data storage in HASS is configured?

also how can I have hass take a circuit, subtract the value of an edge device, and produce a new number that is that subtraction... ?

[sharp kayak]

look for recorder and long term statistics in the docs

[sharp kayak]

for the energy dashboard you don't have to do this, you can set upstream devices and it will handle it automatically for you