Suppose this is a common question, but I didn’t find the answer using quick search, so sorry :slight_smile: I wonder, if I have lot of presence detection sensor on my mobile phone (wifi connection, router ping, GRPS logger etc) - what’s the quickest way to display (and handle in events) my device i…

Maybe this will help: [image] Grouped presence AppDaemon This is not my idea and i can’t find the topic where it’s mentioned. You can use the MQTT Device Tracker for this. Just set it up, and create automations that publish the state of the group to the given topic. Exa…

The point is: to group existing devices from known_devices.yml into one. So I can use physical device (my mobile phone with a bunch of sensors) in events instead of dozen separated sensors. Example: trigger “im home” when phone connects to home wifi, trigger “im at work” when phone enters specified …

You can’t, quite, do what you’re after trivially. A group of the devices would be home or not_home. You’d use the device tracker of the phone for remote locations, and the group for home/away. You could create a template sensor that draws on these to provide a merged view: - platform: template …

Group known devices into one virtual device

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