Person status "unknown" when using Owntracks

[andyfsimon]

Hi,
Since some time I use Owntracks with discrete success to track my movements.
Since updating to the new 0.94.2 though, My person only acknowledge Owntracks when I update it manually, then after about 4/5 minutes it transitions to “Unknown” and stays like that forever.

I have removed all other trackers from my person. So this does not make sense.
When Owntracks was using the old device_tracker system it worked fine.

Does anyone have this problem?

[andyfsimon]

Update, others are seeing this and reporting on this thread:

Owntracks source_type & person location

Hi I am having some trouble with the Person Component in combination with a dd-wrt device tracker and device tracking with Owntracks. The person I have created has 2 trackers linked: tracker_stationary (ddwrt) and tracker_gps (Owntracks). I have created two zones, home and work in both Owntracks and HA. The Person always shows the state of my stationary tracker, home or not_home. Only directly after pushing a new location from Owntracks, it switches to work (when I am at work of course) for a f…

[pnbruckner (Phil)]

And here…

0.94.1 - Person Component, multiple device trackers and defined Zones

TL;DR: A person’s “state” in a defined zone is not really working. It does not use zone names when within the zones, it only says “Away”. Configuration: 1 android and 1 iPhone both with Owntracks (configured via Integrations) and Bluetooth trackers (in known_devices). Trackers “merged” using “Persons”. Zones in HA are Home (default), and defined Daycare and Work. (Also, in case it matters: 0.94.1, running on Gigabyte Brix i3, 8Gb ram, 128Gb SSD, Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, running HASSio in Docker.) I…

[pnbruckner (Phil)]

I think I may have figured this out. See:

0.94.1 - Person Component, multiple device trackers and defined Zones

So I think I understand how the Person entity’s state can be unknown when one of its “input” trackers (or its only input tracker) is owntracks. I just did a test and discovered Person changing temporarily to unknown. In this particular test I didn’t see it in the UI because it was only in that state for less than 0.2 sec. I did however see it in the logs. I made it happen by forcing an update from the Owntracks app. There were actually two updates in HA, where the first had the owntracks device…

[pnbruckner (Phil)]

I think I have found and fixed it. See PR #24503.