iBeacon not showing states in automation

zaldwaik · April 20, 2025, 10:33pm

I have purchased this iBeacon https://www.feasycom.com/fsc-bp108b and it connected fine to my HA. However, I am not able to do any automation as the offered states do not correspond to what is shown in the logs. So no automations are started with either enter zone or leave zone. The logs show detected away and detected at home, and neither triggers entering or leaving a zone.

zaldwaik · April 20, 2025, 10:34pm

tom_l · April 21, 2025, 2:37am

Try a ~~zone or~~ state trigger instead of a device trigger.

~~https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger/#zone-trigger~~

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger/#state-trigger

EDIT: see Drew’s comment below.

Didgeridrew · April 21, 2025, 2:45am

As Tom said, use a State trigger… Zone triggers (which, IIRC, is what the Device trigger defaults to with device_tracker entities) require a GPS tracker.