Increase (home) zone

1

I have tried and have been unsuccessful in enlarging my home zone. I tried increasing my radius in my config.yaml page but that did not work see below:

  zone.home:
    radius: 20000

Any suggestions on what I can do?

2

Did you restart Home Assistant ?

That’s a mighty big radius though 20000 = 20 km

Do you own an island or are you Bill Gates ? :joy:

3

Trying to start the automation when I enter the neighborhood.

4

You might consider creating a neighborhood zone at each entry point and the home zone, that way you can dial things in a bit better. This is what I do so I can track when I’m on my way to the house versus when I’m there.

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5

Or create a proximity sensor to measure distance from home, and use the travel direction info to see coming or leaving:

6

This works fine:

# Zone override
zone:
  - name: Home
    latitude: 52.3XXXXX
    longitude: 4.9XXXXXX
    radius: 30
    icon: mdi:account-multiple
7

I have zones with 100m radius on roads to my home.
But this may only work if you drive a car.
Walking, swimming, flying - you may miss these zones.