Device_tracker in configuration.yaml is not working!

Configuration
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Hi,

I have someone in my home that doesn’t want to install the home assistant app on his mobile. But I want to know if someone is at home at a certain time. So in my router my dhcp server will provide a certain static ip address to his phone(192.168.2.150). I want to use a ping request to make sure that he is at home or not. So I use this in my configuration.yaml:
device_tracker:

  • platform: ping
    hosts:
    Mario_Phone: 192.168.2.150

I have restarted home assistant and checked the developer tools and states. This should have “Mario_Phone” now and its state.But I can’t find it. What is wrong?
Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance,
Erik

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Ping device trackers are no longer set up via YAML.

Create a Ping integration as described. That will give you a working binary sensor, and a disabled-by-default set of performance sensors as well as a device tracker.

If you need the device tracker as opposed to the binary sensor, go to the Ping integration page, Entities tab, and find and enable the device tracker entity.

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This works for me. Thank you for your help.