ESPHome sensor filters: smooth noise and cut traffic with averages, delta, throttle and heartbeatcode · unverified · Read sensors often but publish only meaningful changes: average with sliding_window_moving_average, suppress small changes with delta, cap the rate with throttle, still send a periodic value with heartbeat, and drop known bogus readings with filter_out. Filters run in the order written.
Home Assistant database growing and SD card wearing out: tune the recorderwarning · unverified · The recorder writes every state change to home-assistant_v2.db and keeps 10 days by default. Exclude noisy entities, raise commit_interval, and keep the database off SD cards to save disk space and storage life.