# Insights improvement sugestions **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 10, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171 "2025-11-10T14:13:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ad\_Dekkers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ad_dekkers/32/120751_2.png) [@Ad\_Dekkers](https://community.homey.app/u/Ad_Dekkers)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/1 "2025-11-10T14:13:38Z")
1. Show last (current) value in the header. 2. Show real values in the graph. Now there is a low pass filter over it when it’s a longer timeframe. 3. Show positive and negative (below 0) values in a different color. 4. Add a user adjustable moving (2 hour?) time timeframe. ---
**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 10, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/2 "2025-11-10T14:18:28Z")
> [@Ad\_Dekkers](#): > > Show real values in the graph. Now there is a low pass filter over it when it’s a longer timeframe. It’s not a filter, the actual real values are simply not stored. Everything gets averaged down very quickly and only those averages are stored. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/3 "2025-11-10T16:43:58Z")
“In the beginning” it apparently wasn’t averaged yet, but at some point Athom actually thought it’s (marketed it as) a good idea: > In Homey v1.x insights were stored indefinitely, simply added to a long list of entries. This gave many problems because simply put, Homey’s storage is not infinite. There’s about 1.6 GB available for user data, and minus apps and voices approximately 1 GB remains. When you have quite some devices running for a long time, you can easily see that storage becomes a problem. > In Homey v2.0 we set out to solve this problem once and for all. A simple but brilliant solution has been implemented that averages insights over time. The farther you go in the past, the more we average. The smallest interval is 5 seconds, which is visible for the last hour. The largest interval is 1 day, which is used for one or more years. Which is a fine tradeoff, because who want’s to see their energy usage at 12:31 on Thursday more than 2 years ago? We definitely don’t! [Source](https://homey.app/en-us/blog/homey-v2-0-insights-alarms-logic/) . Alternatively, many of your ideas & more is possible with the [DataVista widget app](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-datavista/121482), to display graphs on the dashboard. If you want data not to be averaged over time, you can export insights to .csv or mysql, influxdb, postgresql Just search the app store. ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Dekkers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ad_dekkers/32/120751_2.png) [@Ad\_Dekkers](https://community.homey.app/u/Ad_Dekkers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 10:30am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/4 "2025-11-11T10:30:47Z")
Thanks for the info. The DataVista widgets are mutch better. Thanks for the tip. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/5 "2025-11-11T18:49:12Z")
YW! Btw Erik, the DataVista dev is open to improvements ideas & requests. ---
**Author:** ![Ferry\_van\_E](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ferry_van_e/32/10953_2.png) [@Ferry\_van\_E](https://community.homey.app/u/Ferry_van_E)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/insights-improvement-sugestions/145171/6 "2026-09-28T18:17:23Z")
For the custom Dashboards you can add Insights. I do not understand why the real-time value is not visible for each selected Insight. You first have to press on the Insight to go in detailed mode and when moving the cursor around a value appears. For someone working in the process industry checking hundreds of ‘insights’ (or trends as we call them) daily this is quite strange. Isn’t the purpose of a dashboard to catch a quick glimpse of several values or status of an item? A real-time value for an Insight should be visible (or toggled on/off by choice)