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title: "History Graph"

description: "Instructions for setting up History Graph."

date: 2017-09-20 15:00

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ha_category: History

logo: home-assistant.png

ha_release: "0.55"

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The `history_graph` component will make the UI display a graph similar to the graphs in `more-info` popups and the [history](/components/history/) panel.

To use this component in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

history_graph:

gr1:

entities:

- light.ceiling.lights

| Attribute | Optional | Default | Description |

|---------------------------|----------|-------------------------------------------------------|

| `entities` | no | | List of entities whose history to show as a graph. |

| `name` | yes | ID | Name to display. |

| `hours_to_show` | yes | 24 | Number of hours to show. |

| `refresh` | yes | 0 | Number of seconds between graph refreshes. 0 for no refreshes. |

history_graph:

gr1:

name: Lights Graph

entities:

- light.ceiling.lights

- light.bed_light

hours_to_show: 240

refresh: 60

gr2:

name: Temperature

entities:

- sensor.outside_temperature

- sensor.inside_temperature

hours_to_show: 120

# refresh: 0