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Add recorder vars db_max_retries and db_retry_wait #12023

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added documentation for recorder component
TechnicallyJoe Feb 8, 2020
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added default values to vars and edited database setup section.
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readded recorder details line i mistakenly removed
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description: The URL that points to your database.
required: false
type: string
db_max_retries:
description: The max amount of times, the recorder retries to connect to the database.
required: false
default: 10
type: integer
db_retry_wait:
description: The time in seconds, that the recorder sleeps when trying to connect to the database.
required: false
default: 3
type: integer
purge_keep_days:
description: Specify the number of history days to keep in recorder database after a purge.
required: false
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### Database startup

If you are running a database server instance on the same server as Home Assistant then you must ensure that this service starts before Home Assistant. For a Linux instance running Systemd (Raspberry Pi, Debian, Ubuntu and others) then you should edit the service file.
To help facilitate this, db_max_retry and db_retry_wait variables have been added to ensure the recorder retries the connection to your database enough times, for your database to start up.

```bash
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/home-assistant@homeassistant.service
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