Group as Badge?

So I am using 3 device trackers for presence detection: BT, Nmap and iOS.

    name: Stephen
    entities:
      - device_tracker.stephen
      - device_tracker.stephen_iphone
      - device_tracker.12xx34yy56zz

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I made another group to track the presence of me and my OH.

    name: Family
    entities:
      - group.stephen
      - group.april

I do not wish this to be a card and would rather it was two badges, Is this possible and how can id do it?

Alternatively, can i combine all three trackers into one entity so it can be a badge?

Thanks

bump please

When you use owntrack you can combine the trackers into one -see documentation about that at the bottom of this page:

The description looks pretty generic to me (not owntracks specific), so you could try this. I doubt it will work with three, but you could maybe combine iPhone and nmap tracker this way.
If you then remove them from all groups they will appear as a badge.

As a side note: I have been testing owntracks and iPhone tracker for a couple of weeks now in parallel ( on the same phone) and I find that owntracks-http is more accurate than the iPhone app location tracker. Worth a try…

@DDK can you please share your owntracks http configuration? I am using owntracks http on android and having difficulties with my location updating from my phone to HA and on HA in general.

Thanks.

Hi,

it’s pretty basic.
in my configuration.yaml I have:

  - platform: owntracks_http
    waypoints: false

in the owntracks app on my phone I have the following settings:
Mode: HTTP
Tracker ID: DK
Authentication: on
userID: homeassistant
password: ***
and then a reference to the URL for my duckdns based home assistant setup, like this:

https://<myaccount>.duckdns.org/api/owntracks/dennis/iphone

i basically followed these instructions: