Life 360 device tracker not appearing in Home Assistant

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Hi there,

I’m new to this forum and just trying to work out the Life360 device tracker.

I’ve managed to set it up within Home Assistant using the UI and I can see in the Home Assistant log that it is definitely working as I can see the following entry:
(SyncWorker_12) [homeassistant.components.life360.device_tracker] Updating life360_adam

But I can’t seem to find any entity with this device_tracker and when I go in to persons I don’t have any available device trackers except for the one from my netgear Orbi.

Any ideas on what I need to do would be greatly appreciated.

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Sorry all but after doing some research I was sent done the right path and fixed this.

My default under my netgear device tracker was track_new_devices: false

Life 360 created 2 new entries in the known_devices.yaml and they were both set to track: false.

Once I set these both to track: true a device_tracker entity appeared in Home Assistant and I was able to add each one to appropriate person.

Hope this helps if anyone else has this issue.

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Unfortunately this is a common problem. It seems people always set trace_new_devices to false when they use router-based trackers and forget later when they add other trackers that that setting is a global setting that affects all trackers. Glad you figured it out and got it working. :slight_smile: