Is there any way to put a map on the dashboard that alwasy shows a user location?

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Is it possible to add a map on a dashboard where it will always center on a user?

Right now I have a map that centers on home, and if we’re there we see ‘icons’ for us, if we’re not, we just see the map.

Can I create a map that will center on wherever one user / device is?

Meaning create a map that if my wife is home, it centers on home, if she’s at her sisters house it centers there and shows her…?

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The default map card can do that. You just have to select the person you want to focus on. You can even show the movement of tha past x hours.

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That’s what the map card does

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Thanks I’ll dig into it a bit more.

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As I mentioned mine is just staying on home. It sounds like I may need to ‘tell it’ to focus on one device or user?

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focus: true is set by default. Are you sure you’re looking at the map card which you add manually to the dashboard, and not the map panel which is shown in the sidebar?

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I’m not! I’m still very new, so I’ll dig in and take a look. Thanks!

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I presume you’ve set up home assistant in some way so that it is available externally? Otherwise your location will not be available when you leave home.

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Thanks all, I looked at what I have an it looks like all I need to do is remove MY device from that particular map and it will stay focused on her phone.

Simplest solution for my application, so I should be good.

Thanks again!

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Not quite. You could simply drop into yaml mode and add focus: false for your device. Then you should be able to focus on your wife by default AND see yourself if you zoom out too.