In the new ping-integration there is no consider_home option.
While in the old version (setting it in the configuration.yaml) this was possible (and very helpful with ios-devices),
it is no more possible (according to the documentation) within the new integration.
Can this be readded?
Or is there another way to achieve the „old“ behaviour?
Greetings,
gang-himself
2nd this. Suddenly all my automations based on someone being home or not are screwed due to my phones going away constantly when I’m home.
This is a must have option, otherwise device_tracker based on ping sensor for iOS device is useless, as iOS devices keep turning on and off its WIFI constantly.
Please bring it back.
It’s coming in a future release. Either a .x release in 2023.12 or an upcoming 2024 release. The PR is in review.
Any sort of time frame when this is likely?
Nope, review process can take anywhere between 1 and 180 days typically. So it really depends on how well the code is written
3rd this.
I can’t use location services and had this working fine on my iOS device. Now i don’t know whether i’m coming or going.
It would be good to have this reinstated as a feature. As an HA newbie I think I figured it how to work around the feature by using the timer feature in the automation that the upgrade broke. But breaking things isn’t pleasant 
. One week in an really appreciating HA.
2024.1.x will have consider home as an option. If you join the beta, you can have it as early as December 28th 2023.
As a workout I created an input boolean and have it so on is home and off is away. I then set it to change based on my iPhone ping but only switching to away after ping has been away for 20mins.
alias: B1 adam away
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- device_tracker.adam_iphone_ping
to: not_home
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 20
seconds: 0
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.adam_location
state: “on”
action:
- service: input_boolean.turn_off
data:
entity_id: input_boolean.adam_location
One thing I noticed is that all my Ping Device Trackers were migrated, but disabled by default.
I have the ping device tracker as one component of a Bayesian sensor. but the fact that they have not reliably updated since the 2023.12 releases has certainly changed the reliability of the Bayesian sensor. I have had to remove these sensors from the mix.
I also used to generate the YAML for these ping device trackers from YAML (my household and extended family/friends) using AppDaemon to be able to see who was in the house.
Going to have to switch all of these to template sensors or input_booleans as proposed by wormvortex
