ICMP Integration

Configuration
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Hi,

It seems that ping has moved into its own integration, previously I had added the cellphones manually in the configuration.yaml file. Under the new integration, for each IP addresses there are two entities created:

  1. Binary sensor which shows if the device is connected
  2. Device tracker entity which is perpetually showed in a state of “unavailable”

So I’m unable to set the person’s status using 2) above. I also tried creating my own device_tracker using a template but that did not work either.

Is this the expected behavior of Ping integration or am I doing something incorrectly in the above configuration?

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I figured it out, it seems the device_tracker by default is disabled so had to manually enable device tracker setting and now the UI shows the correct status of presence or absence. I’ll leave this post here just in case someone stumbles into a similar position!