look at the reported accuracy when it happens and make adjustment in sensor settings appropriately
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Oh it’s not the home range for sure. I’ve made the radius very large for testing but it is still happening. Rebooting the phone seems to have helped for now.
Hey for me it was fixed after removing the location updates from the sensor updates. For some reason I had ticked that on at some point in time and that forced the phone to update the location together with any sensor data update and that was causing the issue, as this made location updates very very frequent and error prone.
I’m not talking about radius I said accuracy
@fxxr did you double check if location updates are included i sensor updates within you companion app? If so remove that. It doesn’t help. To me it also seemed that this setting was causing the accuracy filter to not work.
Do my words make any sensor to you or do I talk gibberish language here, as I dont know the exact names of the config/features I’m writing about here.
Here are some docs on location sensor settings: Location | Home Assistant Companion Docs
What this option does is it triggers the same thing that request_location_update notification command does. It creates a temporary request for latest location using GPS instead of the fused location provider. Its supposed to be more accurate but when included with sensor updates it can trigger so often the results may get mixed up. The reason why this setting exists is because this was the old behavior of the app since we updated it and we wanted to keep the old behavior for anyone who wanted it. This option is not enabled by default either so it needed to be explicitly enabled by the user.
The best way to troubleshoot location issues are mentioned in the docs, you need to look at the logs as we log the entire decision making process so you can see what the issue is to make adjustments as needed.
Thanks, I didn’t realize that in your first message. I’ll take a look into accuracy and the docs you linked.
Thanks for following up! I checked and location updates in sensor updates are disabled.
I think my issue was the device actually reporting incorrect location. After rebooting it, this issue went away. If it happens again, I’ll look into debug data, but I might just set a weekly reboot for it 
Resurrecting this thread.
I have a strange issue with the location now showing on two different Android phones. (2 different users)
Both show that we now live across the road from our actual house!
I’ve rebooted one phone and restarted the companion app, but I’m still living across the road…
I also checked the lat long of the phone’s device tracker entity in HA, and seems to think I am across the road as well.
Really strange that both phones are doing it. Both are the same model phone, but on different networks.
I’ll check in the morning if its corrected itself. I’ve never had this issue before.
those are actual reports that Google is sending. We have some troubleshooting steps around how to read the logs and evaluate teh location reports that come from google.
check to see how frequent you see the updates and if any are skipped due to accuracy like mentioned above.
I toggled high accuracy mode on and off, then toggle update frequency to 1 minute, then back to ‘fast only when charging’ on ONE phone and BOTH phones fixed themselves, now showing at home.
I have the exact same problem. Reboot seems to fix it for a while
Ressurecting the thread again. The Problem is also observable on iOS. But what I can tell is, it seems that it’s not the iPhone which is actually providing wrong data, since I’m having also other GPS Tracker apps, running on the same device, and they all claim that I’m still at home, only the Home Assistant Companion app, thinks I’m exactly 1,7km out in the woods. This is apparently reflected by leaving the home zone and also proximity integration tells me that I’m actually 1,7km away.
All other Apps like, Geofency, Traccar etc. are certain I’m still at home.
Companion App Location Log claims, that there was an significant location change, which literally not happened, while I was sitting on the couch.
How can we track that down?
Just want to add that this was happening to me and it was driving me nuts.
I worked out that in “person” settings under “Select the devices that belong to this person” it had an old macbook listed. I believe that macbooks last known location was my office - this was the location that kept reporting for me each time I rebooted HA.
Removing this device seems to have resolved the issue.