Person state and Android app access URL

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My current person state depends on two device tracker entities. My router and gps device tracker from the Android app.
This setup works good but I would love to improve it.

Is there a possibility to create a device tracker based on the access URL of Android app? I mean if the app uses the external URL to connect to Home Assistant, my person status should change to “not home”.

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You could use the WiFi sensor for that. That’s what I do with an automation and an MQTT device tracker.

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Thanks for your feedback.

That means there is no out-of-the-box device tracker based on the access URL? Perhaps this is worth a feature request!?

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I think a lot of people create an internal A record for the external URL of their HA instance so that they can access it via HTTPS without certificate errors from the inside. Thus, determining a connection URL would be pointless since the URL is the same.

I would suggest you use a device tracker that keeps track of if you are connected to your wireless network or not. The Ubiquiti integration does a wonderful job of this, I’m sure there are other integrations for other types of network gear as well.

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True.

Thanks for you help. I’ll try to improve my current setup.

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