Insights: Choose date with 24h view / Ability to turn off interpolation (graph smoothing)

Ideas & Suggestions
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Currently, the insights becomes very granular once you go out to a week view. I’m trying to compare data from each day over the last week, but I can’t see the details I want on the week view. I’d like to be able to choose which date I want to look at the full 24 hour from. That way I can better compare various dates and gain useful insight.

The graph also has interpolation/smoothing between graph points. The current interpolation can make it hard to interpret data correctly. I’d like a toggle that can tun on and off “smoothing”. Especially on the week-view, it becomes rather impossible to interpret the data, because the lines overshoot rather quickly with the current interpolation implementation. With granular data, I can’t really see what’s going on.

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You’ll have to contact Athom if you want this changed, this community forum cannot help with that (other than suggesting to look at alternative databases like InfluxDB).

3

Ah, then I misread the forum title as this being a place Athom also read. I figured I’d send them a mail, too. I’ll do that, then.

4

Only when it suits them :wink:

5

Maybe this is a solution: [APP][Pro] Archive Insights - export all your Insights data to a NAS, FTP or web folder

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This is definitely one solution. I guess it also shows that the data is in fact in there, and it’s not granulated for older dates due to a lack of data. I see the API-calls to fetch the data on the insight page, so if I find one that accepts parameters, I’m sure you could just change the calls to get the correct data, too.

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Insights very quickly starts averaging data (after 5 minutes I think), throwing away old data points.

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24h view is plenty for me, so if the same granularity as for 24h is kept for all history, that’d be fine.

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These are the rrdtool definitions that are used:

    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:5:720',
    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:60:360',
    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:300:576',
    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:3600:336',
    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:21600:3000',
    'RRA:AVERAGE:0.6:604800:520',

Which, I think, means: keep 720 5-second averages, keep 360 60-second averages, keep 576 300-second averages, etc.

It looks like for the 24-hour view it uses the 5-minute (300/576) definition.

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10

Very useful insight - thank you!

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There are a view other apps in the store, just search for insight, that might better suite your needs. I have not yet studied them all.

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@Articate, you’re absolutely right with the assumption that Athom is looking at the “Ideas & Suggestions” category: