Person tracking with states - in NodeRed

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hello everybody

I want to track myself via Home assistant, but I don’t have a device that is permanently connected to Home assistant via GPS.

My idea is to use states of dummy switches to communicate my location.

e.g:
Dummy Switch Home on > me at home state
Dummy Switch Work on > me at work state

I would like to do this via NodeRed, because that’s where I store all the logic. But unfortunately the Person Entity cannot be edited, but in my opinion there should be a possibility to implement this or not?

For tips or explanations I am grateful to you. :slight_smile:

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Okay, after much searching and consultation with other users. The call_service function for persons is missing, but nobody could answer me why this is missing, does anybody know more?

3

You can’t call Persons, but you should be able to call device_trackers. So you can have your dummy switch manually call the device_trackers, and have the people track the device_tracker so it updates the Persons location