Device_tracker hide_if_away

Configuration
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Hello,

I have this warning in my log:

2020-02-09 16:30:13 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker] The 'hide_if_away' option (with value 'False') is deprecated, please remove it from your configuration. This option will become invalid in version 0.107.0

I searched all my files but I can’t find those lines.

Any idea?

Erik

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This option is normaly in <config>/known_devices.yaml

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Thought this as well and removed those lines, still seeing the message though.

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Indeed, nothing in that file.

E.

5

Getting the same error and my known_devices.yaml file is full of them but I am not getting that many warning logs.

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I had the same thing, my known_devices kept showing up with hide_if_away: false, even after deleting the offending lines. Then I remembered my main configuration.yaml has it in the device tracker section:


device_tracker:
  - platform: asuswrt
    host: !secret my_router_ip
    username: !secret my_router_username
    password: !secret my_router_password
    interval_seconds: 30
    consider_home: 180
    new_device_defaults:
      track_new_devices: false
      hide_if_away: false

Removing that last line, then cleaning hide_if_away lines from my known_devices file one more time fixed the problem for me. If you aren’t tracking a ton of devices… instead of individually deleting every single hide_if_away line from known devices, you can just delete all of the non-tracked devices wholesale, then remove the lines from the leftover devices that you are actually tracking.

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I don’t have the line in my device tracker config but still see it for new devices that are added to known devices.

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There seems little point in deleting this from the known_devices.yaml file as all new entries add it as standard

cc_50_e3_55_56_d2:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac: CC:50:E3:55:56:D2
name: cc 50 e3 55 56 d2
picture:
track: false

This was after a bit of pruning of this file last night. Until the default is not to add “hide_if_away: false” to known_devices I see little point in worrying about it.

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It seems to me that once the hide_if_away has been placed on the known_devices.yaml it will not be removed.

Also, what replaces it? I don’t want a hundred devices appearing.

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Yes, it’s the same with mine.
I had the same thing, my known_devices kept showing up with hide_if_away: false, even after deleting the offending lines.
I have a Ping binary sensor, and every time a new device is added, he will automatically add this property in known_devices.yaml.
I think this is a bug and needs to be fixed.

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Well now that some time has passed, I’m seeing the same as everyone else; hide_if_away keeps showing up on me. I have to agree with baz123’s observation that once hide_if_away is placed in known_devices.yaml it will keep returning, and further there is currently no workaround for this. It’s clearly a bug in the device_tracker.

A while back I read a post on github where a dev (I think frenck) mentioned that this is a known issue. IIRC, when hide_if_away was originally deprecated, they removed it and that caused some more major issues. So they reverted some of the code temporarily; this is likely the cause of this strange behavior we are seeing. Currently they have to redo a lot of things to fix hide_if_away before it can be properly removed. Apparently, deprecating hide_if_away was more complicated than they thought originally.

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Kind of a related question… Where is the known_devices.yaml file located? My iPhone device_tracker is showing up twice in HA, and the only way that I can apparently remove the duplicate is in known_devices.yaml. I just don’t know where to find that file. Help please?

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Check under configuration/integrations for 2 or more versions of Mobile App and delete the one showing the oldest iOS version.

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Got it. Thanks!