Keep getting proximity configuration warnings

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Hi

I’ve been struggling with proximity configuration and I’m trying to get it not warn about configuration. As long as I can tell my proximity configuration is setup by the book like this

proximity:
  - zone: home
    ignored_zones:
      - itleverantoren
    devices:
      - device_tracker.peter_oneplus2
      - device_tracker.karin_xperiaz5c
    tolerance: 50
    unit_of_measurement: km
  - zone: itleverantoren
    ignored_zones:
      - home
    devices:
      - device_tracker.peter_oneplus2
    tolerance: 50
    unit_of_measurement: km

However I keep getting warnings in console like this one down here, and also as of later daily updates there’s a box in the ui telling me there’s something wrong with the proximity configuration, I just can’t figure out what it is.

ERROR (Thread-1) [homeassistant.bootstrap] The following platforms contain invalid configuration: proximity (please check your configuration)expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data['proximity']. Got [OrderedDict([('zone', 'home'), ('ignored_zones', ['itleverantoren']), ('devices', ['device_tracker.peter_oneplus2', 'device_tracker.karin_xperiaz5c']), ('tolerance', 50), ('unit_of_measurement', 'km')]), OrderedDict([('zone', 'itleverantoren'), ('ignored_zones', ['home']), ('devices', ['device_tracker.peter_oneplus2']), ('tolerance', 50), ('unit_of_measurement', 'km')])].

Help is much appreciated if you have any insight into this.

Best regards
Peter

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Please post config snippets in code tags so spacing is preserved. Not doing so makes it very hard to debug.

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Peter - highlight your code and then hit the code format button as opposed to the quote button. It looks like this:

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Thanks, I’ve updated my post using code format so now you can see the spacings and all. Have I missed some formating in the code maybe?

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Hi @pitrus,
The proximity component doesn’t allow you to have several configs in that way.
You might want to try this config:

proximity:
  zone: home
  ignored_zones:
    - itleverantoren
  devices:
    - device_tracker.peter_oneplus2
    - device_tracker.karin_xperiaz5c
  tolerance: 50
  unit_of_measurement: km

proximity 2:
  zone: itleverantoren
  ignored_zones:
    - home
  devices:
    - device_tracker.peter_oneplus2
  tolerance: 50
  unit_of_measurement: km

if that’s not helping, you might to take a look at this file I created a while ago: https://github.com/nickwaring/home-assistant/blob/519a5cf92bb65e17f07e8cb0e1694d8634adad35/homeassistant/components/proximity.py

this allows you to have multiple zones as targets for the proximity component and it allows you to reverse the logic so you would see which zone is closest to a given device

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