Can I change the state of a device_tracker?

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I am using several inputs to determine if a person is home or away. I would like to update the state of my device_tracker for my entity to the results of my tests (so that I can use the nice picture and Home/Away text). Is this possible?

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I found a suggestion on the forum to just put the different entities into a group. It’s worked great for me. If any of them are “home” then my “group” is home.

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That sort of works, but what I’m really looking for is the picture with the state (in orange) to show up with uses the status from multiple trackers - not a grouping of statuses.

Thanks for the reply!

Tom

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This might be what you want…

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Oh - very nice! I will check it out - Thanks!

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To answer the original question, you can set the state of a device tracker using the “see” service:

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Perfect - just what I was looking for - thank you!

Tom

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