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This PR adds a comprehensive Entity Diagnostics Dashboard to help users monitor the health of their tracked entities and discover new entities to track.

New Features

  • Entity health analysis with reliability scoring based on update frequency, recency, and stability
  • Smart entity suggestions using correlation analysis to identify entities that change state at similar times as configured trackers
  • Improved UX with friendly names displayed in entity selectors (e.g., "John's iPhone (device_tracker.john_iphone)")
  • Historical data analysis using 7-14 day windows to calculate meaningful statistics
  • Automated warnings for stale entities, infrequent updates, or erratic behavior
  • Integration source detection to show which integration provides each entity

Technical Details

  • Integrates with Home Assistant's recorder component for historical state analysis
  • Uses entity registry for metadata and source detection
  • Efficient database queries with appropriate time windows to limit resource usage
  • Fully async implementation with proper executor usage for heavy operations
  • Complete type hints throughout new code
  • Follows Home Assistant coding standards

Benefits

  • Discover missing trackers: Automatically suggests entities users might have forgotten to configure
  • Identify problems early: Quickly spot entities that aren't updating properly
  • Data-driven decisions: Provides reliability metrics and update statistics to inform configuration choices
  • Better user experience: Easier entity identification with friendly names

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It looks like some previous modifications that were made have been backed out. Can you explain why this has happened? Also, not sure why you changed the use of the EntitySelector into a SelectSelector. As far as the main point of the PR, I haven't had time yet to dig into that. I'm a bit preoccupied right now with some changes I'm working on to a couple of my other integrations. I'll try to spend some time on this in the near future.

Thanks for the suggestion!

CONF_ENTITY_PICTURE,
CONF_MAX_SPEED_AGE,
CONF_REQ_MOVEMENT,
CONF_SHOW_UNKNOWN_AS_0,
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Why are these changes being backed out?

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This was a mistake. I have reversed this hopefully!

vol.Required(CONF_ENTITY_ID): EntitySelector(
EntitySelectorConfig(
include_entities=list(include_entities), multiple=True
vol.Required(CONF_ENTITY_ID): SelectSelector(
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What is wrong with the EntitySelector? It shows the friendly name, entity ID, and the entity picture if it has one.

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I was having big problems with the EntitySelector - didn't find it showed the entityID (clearly?) and it was really hard to find the right entity due to a lack of information. SelectSelector makes it super clear both what you're selecting and what IS selected (when reviewing).

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Well, this is very strange. I'm running two HA systems, my "production" system and a test system. They are both running the same HA Core version and HA Fronted version. Both running the same version of the composite integration. Yet one EntitySelector shows entity IDs and the other doesn't:

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Not sure why the EntitySelector is working differently on these two (seemingly otherwise identical) systems, but I don't think that changing this selector should be part of this PR.

self.options[CONF_END_DRIVING_DELAY] = user_input[
CONF_END_DRIVING_DELAY
]
self.options[CONF_END_DRIVING_DELAY] = user_input[CONF_END_DRIVING_DELAY]
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Why was this change backed out?

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This formatting change was a mistake. I have reversed this formatting change, hopefully!

- Add comprehensive entity health analysis with reliability scoring
- Add smart entity correlation suggestions based on state change timing
- Improve UX with friendly names in entity selectors
- Add integration source detection for better diagnostics
- Add historical data analysis (7-14 day windows)
- Add automated warnings for stale or unreliable entities

This feature helps users monitor tracked entity health and discover
new entities to track through intelligent correlation analysis.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
@26tajeen 26tajeen force-pushed the feature/entity-diagnostics branch from 018b281 to e4778b9 Compare December 31, 2025 09:27
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addressed concerns :-)

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There is still something very wrong with this branch. E.g., config_flow.py now has two definitions of the CompositeConfigFlow class. Also, it's missing the latest commit from the master branch. I think you need to rebase or something.

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Oh, also from the last workflow, an error from hassfest:

[DEPENDENCIES] Using component recorder but it's not in 'dependencies' or 'after_dependencies'

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