GPS device tracking augmented by ibeacon

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
1

I think I might just be confused on the documentation, “It will begin then begin using iBeacons instead of your location for enter and exit triggers around your zones.”

I’m using the iOS app for device tracking and currently have all my zones being tracked with GPS. I’d like to improve this when I pull in to the driveway at home so I put a beacon there. The problem is the beacon does not cover all of this zone. Can I enable the iBeacon to trigger the zone enter/exit without eliminating the GPS tracking for that zone?

Something like this in the configuration.yaml?

zone 5:
  name: Home
  latitude: xxxx
  longitude: yyy
  radius: 300

And then this in customize?

zone.home:
  beacon:
    uuid: B9407F30-F5F8-466E-AFF9-25556B57FE6D
    major: 60042
    minor: 43814

Then it gets a little more complicated because there is an android device using OwnTracks but, one step at a time.

Thanks,
Devan

2

Would like to know this as well. Did you ever find out?

3

Radio silence…
I’m running this configuration but, difficult to tell if it’s using more than just GPS

4

You don’t get a crash in the iOS app with the beacon: section in zone.home?

5

The configuration above has not caused any issues.

Devan