Enable Recorder

Use this action to resume saving events and state changes to the database after you stopped it with the Disable Recorder action. This is handy when a temporary period of not recording is over and you want your history to pick up again.

Only users with administrator rights can run this action.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To enable the recorder from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the list of actions, search for and select Recorder: Enable Recorder.
6. Select Save.

Options in the UI

This action has no options.

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required. For how an automation or a script is built in YAML, refer to Automations in YAML and Scripts.

In YAML, refer to this action as recorder.enable. A basic example looks like this:

action: recorder.enable

Options in YAML

This action has no options.

Good to know

• This action is the opposite of the Disable Recorder action. It only has an effect if recording was disabled earlier.
• Events and state changes that happened while the recorder was disabled are not recovered. Only new activity is recorded from this point on.

Still stuck?

To test the action on its own, run it in the automation editor with Run action, and check the message that it shows. To see what the action did when the automation ran, open the trace of that run. For details, refer to Testing automations. For common problems and their solutions, refer to Troubleshooting automations.

If that doesn’t help, the Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

Explore related actions:

• Disable Recorder: Stops recording events and state changes to the database.

• Purge Recorder database: Cleans up old data from the recorder database.

• Purge Recorder entities: Removes recorded data for specific entities, domains, or patterns.

• Get Recorder statistics: Retrieves long-term statistics for one or more entities.