Passing GPS coordinates to a device tracker

[williamp0044 (Paul)]

I was one of the many Automatic users. When they went offline, I’ve been without a device tracker for my vehicle.

There is Bouncie. Which I am waiting for HA integration:

After Automatic shuts down, how to keep track of my car with Home Assistant?

I use the Automatic integration to keep track of my car’s location and gas level. They’re shutting down their service in four days (May 28th) — how are you folks keeping track of these aspects of your car?

Until then, I have configured Tasker to provide my coordinates whenever my phone disconnects from my car. The question is how can I pass these coordinates to home assistant to create a device tracker? There doesn’t seem to be a service where I can manual create a device tracker or manually update one.

Has anyone accomplished anything similar?

[finity]

use the device_tracker.see service:

Device Tracker

[williamp0044 (Paul)]

Thanks! I saw that and how would I create a device tracker manually though? in order to update it?

[finity]

on that same page right above there is a section called “known_devices.yaml”. You create the tracker using that.

[williamp0044 (Paul)]

Thanks! I got it sorted with this direction