Automation with device tracker - triggers randomly

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I am long user of HASS just had my vera have all my devices and scenes, now that i want to get rid of vera altogether, I started updating my configuration by moving slowly to z-wave stick. I paired my garage door and door locks first and it all works fine. Next i wrote automation to open garage door when i arrive home with trigger as my iOS device tracker. It triggers and opens the garage door when i arrive (except one time it did not, dont know why even though my iOS device notification said “Entering Home zone”) . But the issue is it randomly opened the garage even when I am inside home, it happen twice one time late in the night and noticed it next morning, and another time an hour later I am home the garage door opened again. I was able to tell only from the trigger time that it had triggered.

I wonder why this is. when i am home my cellphone is usually in the charging desk and stays pretty much there until i leave, also not a big home to have it triggered again (I had set 200 ft radius on the home zone)

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We can’t help unless you share the automation. Please also format it as code using three backticks (```) above and below the code.

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This often occurs when a GPS-based tracker experiences significant location errors. Often times these errors exceed the defined zone causing a device tracker state change triggering the automation.

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Yep. Likely the device tracker state is changing to not_home and then back to home or something like that.

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here is the automation code:

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In that case can i add another device tracker for redundancy so if both devices are in range then only open. my another device would be my tesla which i already have it setup in HASS and have device tracker info.

do you know how would i add the second device in to the AND trigger?

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Don’t post images, they are large and we can’t test them.
You are trying out a new home automation system and you try you locks first.? - You are a FAR braver man than I.
Generally if you suffer problems like this create a binary sensor from your prescence detection and use the delay off option, this will stop it going ‘off’ until you have been away for the set period. Start with 2 minutes and see if it needs adjusting.

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I kind of knew image is bad idea but unfortunately i am at work and i RDP’s the home computer to get the config text and my copy paste from that linux box to mac seem not work, so i had not option other than image, may be next time i will type in myself.

The reason i started with locks becaz those two are my main devices that need to work for sure otherwise my move would not be possible. I am glad the locks worked.

I have very little knowledge writing those configs (I get googles help mostly). In fact the help i got is to setup a binary sensor by other examples but that does not work for me and not sure what i am doing wrong, so I switched to use the device tracker directly in the automation. May be i will give another try and post the code here and someone can help.

thanks.

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Yes, a second tracker can serve as a check against the GPS tracker. I use a combination of the iOS Companion App, a second tracker (iCloud3), an iBeacon for a zone trigger, and an input_boolean (home/not_home) as a third check.

Getting those garage doors to magically open as your vehicle approaches is a big challenge. It took me quite awhile to get my garage door automation working reliably.