Onboarding and Updating Location/Zone Workflow

Feature Requests
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Home assistant seems to rely on Open StreetMap for setting the location of Home Assistant during the onboarding. Unfortunately, at least in some countries, few addresses are in Open StreetMap and it is very difficult to find and set the location with the map.

If an address can’t be found, I would propose the user is instructed to either:

  • add their home to Open StreetMap after the install, then reset the location. Or maybe give the options to the user to add their home to openstreetmaps now, and refresh when they are done.
  • type in their GPS coordinates from their phone. This would need instructions because most users don’t know how to get these. Which app to use on their phone, etc. Further, the compass app on ios has degrees/minutes/seconds.
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Putting my GPS coordinates in configuration.yaml is what I did when I started with Home Assistant, almost 6 years ago.

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Yeah, most people that is hard. Their phone app as DMS, I think HA requires decimal coordinates.

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Option 3: Fire up google maps on your PC, find your house, click on it, click the lat/long values that show up in the popup at the bottom, then copy them directly from the address bar :wink:

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Most folks are never going to figure that out. Unless the onboarding process suggests this.