home-assistant.io/source/_integrations/statistics.markdown

title	description	ha_category	ha_iot_class	ha_release	ha_quality_scale	ha_codeowners	ha_domain
Statistics	Instructions on how to integrate statistical sensors into Home Assistant.	Utility Sensor	Local Polling	0.30	internal	@fabaff	statistics

The statistics sensor platform consumes the state from other sensors. It exports the mean value as state and the following values as attributes: count, mean, median, stdev, variance, total, min_value, max_value, min_age, max_age, change, average_change and change_rate. If it's a binary sensor then only state changes are counted.

If you are running the recorder component, on startup the data is read from the database. So after a restart of the platform, you will immediately have data available. If you're using the history component, this will automatically also start the recorder integration on startup. If you are not running the recorder component, it can take time till the sensor starts to work because a couple of attributes need more than one value to do the calculation.

Configuration

To enable the statistics sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml:

# enable the recorder integration (optional)
recorder:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: statistics
    entity_id: sensor.cpu
  - platform: statistics
    entity_id: binary_sensor.movement
    max_age:
      minutes: 30

{% configuration %} entity_id: description: The entity to monitor. Only sensors and binary sensor. required: true type: string name: description: Name of the sensor to use in the frontend. required: false default: Stats type: string sampling_size: description: Size of the sampling. If the limit is reached then the values are rotated. required: false default: 20 type: integer max_age: description: Maximum age of measurements. Setting this to a time interval will cause older values to be discarded. Please note that you might have to increase the sampling_size parameter. If you e.g., have a sensor value updated every second you will, by default, only get a max_age of 20s. required: false type: time precision: description: Defines the precision of the calculated values, through the argument of round(). required: false default: 2 type: integer {% endconfiguration %}