InfluxDB and Grafana - Installation and Configuration in 5 minutes, PLUS Dashboard creations

[@raymondknappJr]

SHA - I am so glad that you are out there for us to learn from. I found InfluxDB and Grafana from another youtuber but when I found your description and installation instructions I decided to give it a try. I am at &:55 right now and I am going to let the database get some data before moving on, but everything looks great. I like the fact that I can coordinate sensors in a graph by time. I want to measure several temperatures and events and plot them together to give my HVAC tech to make sure my system is functioning correctly. I am a retired computer programmer, but this has been such a great instruction got it working. Now after I have data over 12 hours I will see what I can do. I have a Davis Weather Station and have an integration on it so I want to see what I can do. Thank You very much. I am running a Home Assistant Yellow with an 968 gig SSD on it. I think I should have plenty of room for a while. Thank you again and keep the videos coming you do a great job.

[@smart_home_australia]

Thanks Raymond, thats a great story and I do this for the feedback and helping others. Enjoy your new data and the many hours of great graphing you have ahead of you. :)

[@scantrain5007]

Great Video! Very clear explained how to create Dashboards with Grafana - for me as beginner very useful. With Greetings from Germany

[@smart_home_australia]

Glad it was helpful!

[@TheHakoworld]

Love the way you explain tiny details too You’re doing a great job 😊

[@smart_home_australia]

Thank you so much 😀 It takes abit more time to do it this way, but I hate finding a video that skips over important steps, so I'm going to carry on doing it this way.

[@muktheo]

This is the video ive been looking for starting learn about HA db. I just using default HA db since the begining and its time to step to the next level db 😂 Thanks so much! Please made another video about the grafana

[@smart_home_australia]

Glad I could help. Its a great db, and if you know SQL its all just makes sense :) OK I'll see what I can do about Grafana, its an even larger topic as there is so many permutations.

[@leighbellote2546]

Very nice clear step by step setup. Thanks

[@smart_home_australia]

Thanks heaps. 😊👍

[@chrysolite13]

Good pacing. Thanks for not wasting my time!

[@smart_home_australia]

I appreciate you noticing the pace - I aim to keep things to the point! but provide enough information to enable the average user to follow along. Too often, steps are rushed or skipped over which I remember frustrated me !

[@wess7390]

Thanks. This got me going on my HA pi5 with SSD hat.

[@smart_home_australia]

NICE !! Great work, is it performing well ?

[@davidhopkins]

Another great video. Thanks for the suggestion. Question: At around 9:35 you hover over the datapoint and it displays the value at that location. The value for me has been rounded to 1 decimal place. I want 2. Can I change that? I know that when the data comes into HA I have 2 decimal places. Not sure where in the process it got rounded.

[@smart_home_australia]

Sure can, in Grafana, you can adjust the decimal precision in the panel settings: - Edit the panel you want to modify - Go to the "Standard options" section - Look for the "Decimals" setting - Set it to 2 to display 2 decimal places This setting controls how many decimal places are shown in the visualization.

[@tamias82]

This is good tutorial. I wish Grafana is more phone friendly though.

[@smart_home_australia]

I've not used Grafana on a mobile extensively, but thanks for pointing this out, I'll have a look.

[@ParkStreetLights]

Amazing Thank you!!!

[@smart_home_australia]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@vladlenbezymanny3716]

Good day. Thank you for the video. Where can you get the token in this addon ?

[@smart_home_australia]

There should be no tokens required, where do you need the token for???

[@Mikrobi204]

Dziękujemy.

[@smart_home_australia]

Thanks :)

[@timlucas4014]

Hi Thanks for the videos... Where's the yaml script for infuxdb Setup at 05:01 ??

[@smart_home_australia]

Hey thanks for letting me know....I inserted the code into the description, but also below: influxdb: host: 192.168.1.4 port: 8086 database: homeassistant username: smarthomeaustralia password: pleasesubscribe max_retries: 3 default_measurement: state

[@kamasp5]

papapa above :D

[@smart_home_australia]

No idea, but thanks anyway lol

[@fabioprade5095]

Tks!!!!!

[@smart_home_australia]

You’re most welcome. 🙏

[@mikesmods317]

Amazing work Thank you!!!

[@smart_home_australia]

Thank you too!

[@Tntdruid]

My db is only 6 gb after 5 years running.

[@smart_home_australia]

Thanks for letting us know, I'm new to Influx but have 100 sensors+ running and was unsure how the DB would grow. How many sensors are you recording against?

[@Tntdruid]

@@smart_home_australia Over 200+ i think, not sure.

[@smart_home_australia]

Wow... next level !! You must have shares in Panasonic Batteries :)

[@Tntdruid]

@@smart_home_australia ZigBee sensors run for a very long time on batteries.

[@abdo3754]

very quickly, just read it. no detailed demonstration

[@smart_home_australia]

There is only so much you can pack into an installation and configuration guide, sorry.