Lovelace - Google Maps Card

Configuration
1

Currently I’m using the default map card in my hass setup to display the location of a device tracker. However, I like Google Maps more, is there any way to achieve the same, but with Google Maps instead of OpenStreet Map?

Many thanks

2

Not that I know of. Also, if this were to exist, it would cost money. Google charges per api call. Something like this would cost a lot of $.

3

I thought it’s possible: https://www.home-assistant.io/cookbook/google_maps_card/

4

Okay then. News to me. So if you have that link, what are you asking? Those are the directions on setting it up…

5

This seems to be the old fashion way and not lovelace.

6

No, that’s the correct way. It’s using a camera feed. So you’d use a picture entity card and set the camera image to it.

7

I was looking for this very thing, but I’m confused as to whether this is available for free.

Do you have to enable the “Maps Static API”? The documentation for that one shows
$ 2. 00
price/1K requests

Or am I reading that wrong?

8

You are correct. Google charges for api calls.

9

you can have thousands of calls per month before charging

does anyone have an example of the lovelace setup to show the camera picture, i just dont know enough to know how to show the camera image now i have the google-maps-camera setup

i have this in the states:
access_token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
friendly_name: Markha
entity_picture: /api/camera_proxy/camera.markha?token=xxxxxxxxx
supported_features: 0

10

Camera feed updates once every 20 seconds. That’s 4320 calls a day. with an average of 30 days in a month thats 129600 calls which will probably fall around $10 a month.

11

You need to make a camera in home assistant before you can configure it in lovelace.

The lovelace configuration would look like this in the end:

- type: picture-entity
  camera_image: camera.whateveryourcameranameis
12

thank you, i can see in states that it has an entity picture of api… but the picture doesn’t show

13

does the url work? FYI, that url will probably update less than 20 seconds. It’ll update based on your device tracker motion. So it will probably be alot less than 129K. Might still cost some $

14

this link is down it seems : https://www.home-assistant.io/cookbook/google_maps_card/

is there another way to have a sattelite view in HA for device trackers?

15

I am coming from the future 2025. Hi