# Insights: Choose date with 24h view / Ability to turn off interpolation (graph smoothing) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842 "2023-11-06T08:57:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Articate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/articate/32/57311_2.png) [@Articate](https://community.homey.app/u/Articate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/1 "2023-11-06T08:57:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/2 "2023-11-06T09:01:24Z")
You’ll have to [contact Athom](https://homey.app/en-us/support/) if you want this changed, this community forum cannot help with that (other than suggesting to look at alternative databases like InfluxDB). ---
**Author:** ![Articate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/articate/32/57311_2.png) [@Articate](https://community.homey.app/u/Articate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/3 "2023-11-06T09:02:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/4 "2023-11-06T09:02:30Z")
> [@Articate](#): > > as this being a place Athom also read Only when it suits them 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/5 "2023-11-06T09:14:48Z")
Maybe this is a solution: [[APP][Pro] Archive Insights - export all your Insights data to a NAS, FTP or web folder](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-archive-insights-export-all-your-insights-data-to-a-nas-ftp-or-web-folder/10976) > **[Exporteer Insights](https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/com.gruijter.insights2csv/Exporteer-Insights/)** > > Maak backups van alle insights ---
**Author:** ![Articate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/articate/32/57311_2.png) [@Articate](https://community.homey.app/u/Articate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:19am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/6 "2023-11-06T09:19:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/7 "2023-11-06T09:20:31Z")
Insights _very_ quickly starts averaging data (after 5 minutes I think), throwing away old data points. ---
**Author:** ![Articate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/articate/32/57311_2.png) [@Articate](https://community.homey.app/u/Articate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/8 "2023-11-06T09:21:24Z")
24h view is plenty for me, so if the same granularity as for 24h is kept for all history, that’d be fine. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/9 "2023-11-06T09:27:36Z")
These are the rrdtool definitions that are used: ```auto '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. ---
**Author:** ![Articate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/articate/32/57311_2.png) [@Articate](https://community.homey.app/u/Articate)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/10 "2023-11-06T09:37:17Z")
Very useful insight - thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Rmb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rmb/32/79135_2.png) [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/11 "2023-11-06T09:39:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DirkG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dirkg/32/118897_2.png) [@DirkG](https://community.homey.app/u/DirkG)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-choose-date-with-24h-view-ability-to-turn-off-interpolation-graph-smoothing/93842/12 "2023-11-06T10:28:00Z")
@Articate, you’re absolutely right with the assumption that Athom is looking at the “Ideas & Suggestions” category: > [@\[Info\] Ideas / Feature Requests](https://community.homey.app/t/ideas-feature-requests-new-info-2021/41137): > > in 2021 Athom removed the link to a Google form for Feature Requests from the Welcome Post in this forum, so I asked Athom. Athom doesn’t like the old form as it was a Black hole (as we the community / users also noted) It is like the old idea box at school, you put everything in it, but almost never hear something back. Athom suggested: Discussing ideas on the forum is better. Discussing pros and cons with others can help crystallize an idea Athom definitely reads along (as we also note…