Hi everyone,
I recently noticed this warning appearing in my logs:
[homeassistant.components.device_tracker.legacy] The legacy device tracker platform ubus.device_tracker is being set up; legacy device trackers are deprecated and will be removed in Home Assistant Core 2027.5
I must say, the native ubus integration has been rock-solid for me. It perfectly handles local presence detection by tracking when devices connect to my Wi-Fi interfaces, and it just works.
With that said, it is not clear to me what the destiny of the core OpenWrt (ubus) integration will be. According to the Home Assistant developer architecture proposals, all legacy device trackers that haven't been migrated to modern config-entries by May 2027 will be removed from the core repository.
Since the built-in OpenWrt integration hasn't received a modern UI/config-entry overhaul, its destiny in Core seems to be total removal unless a maintainer steps up to completely rewrite it. Does anyone know if there's an active effort or PR to modernize the core ubus integration, or are we looking at its end-of-life for core?
I'm also curious to know what you guys are planning to use as a replacement to track presence via Wi-Fi connection if this goes away.