Automation Traces and Refresh

[ChrisMarriott38]

Describe the feature

Refresh Button

Move the Refresh from "Traces -> More actions -. Refresh." to have a refresh button on the main top right corner when you open an automation next to the Undo, redo, Traces and more actions button.

Trace timeline

The ability similar to "Change mode" would be per automation to have the ability to type in a number of traces. The default being 5.

Suggest having a selection of options such as

• Number field to enter how many traces
• Preset options such as 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours
• Day option
• Week Option

Use cases

Refreshing

An issue I've had with automations is the Refreshing of traces for example if you change a mode, or just need to get faster updates when testing. I did find a quick reference to a feature similar for refresh at the old forum features and found this reference but it was an old one now.- https://community.home-assistant.io/t/automation-traces-refresh-button-actually-refresh-automation-trace/767973

Trace Timeline

Another issue i have is for a range of automations i have to use the time frame as triggers. This also helps the defensive nature from say a HA restart or a miss trigger because if an automation runs every minute or 10 minutes etc, for separate Off and On automations it' isn't too long before you have a re-test.

The issue being when ever you try and trouble shoot if you have some that even are as fast as 5 seconds. A friends one using a repeating 5second rate for load balancing solar to his house use. Your only have 25 seconds worth of automation traces. So it's really almost impossible to use the traces as a diagnostic tool.

Obviously it will increase database size, but i imagine it self clearing as it already does. Perhaps a detection tool for if the Trigger is high frequency pop up a warning/condition/alert.

Current workarounds

• It's not really possible to work around the limitation for the Traces.
• The Refresh option is just a bit cumbersome.

Anything else?

No response

[karwosts]

Move the Refresh from "Traces -> More actions -. Refresh." to have a refresh button on the main top right corner when you open an automation next to the Undo, redo, Traces and more actions button.

Why should this button make sense outside of the traces page? I don't understand why you would want that there.