Automower device_tracker is missing

Third party integrations
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Hi,

I installed GitHub - walthowd/ha-automower: Automower Custom Component for Home Assistant from @walt via HACS.

It worked fine over a year on my old HA installation. I did a new setup on a new server, I have no error in the logs, the vacuum instance is created, but not the device_tracker.

Has anyone the same error? Has anyone a solution?

I tried to add log debug outputs to see some errors, but everything is fine. The GPS position is retrieved, updates occure on a regulary base, the only thing which is missing is the device_tracker.

Regards, Christian

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Looks like the problem is in HA itself, see How to create a custom device tracker (from GPS coordinates)? - #12 by ChrLipp

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It works for me.
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The car does not have a GPS, but gets moved with device_tracker.see when phone loses bluetooth connection with the car.

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I think we have two problems with device_tracker.see:

  • when the device tracker doesn’t exist, see does not create it anymore:
    in your case I believe the device tracker was existing from earlier versions
  • The device tracker state is not persisted, but movement works.
    You could try this when you reboot HA und then check, if HA remembers the last position
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No it will never remember the position. But I have an automation that fetches the position from a webserver when HA has been on for two minutes.