Proximity change with update

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Does anyone know if we erase our proximity location in config for the new update how does HA get our home location.

Looking at zone.home still has my location will see tomorrow if my automation works changed them from proximity to zone.home.

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Your home location should be set in Settings > Zones.

For each zone that had a proximity set up, you should have 3 ā€œnearestā€ sensors like:

sensor.home_nearest_device
sensor.home_nearest_direction_of_travel
sensor.home_nearest_distance

as well as 2 sensors per person/tracker like:

sensor.home_bob_distance
sensor.home_bob_direction_of_travel

You should be using one of those in the places you were previously using the proximity entity, zone.home likely is not supplying the information you would have gotten from the proximity entities in the past.

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Very helpful - when I look at the states of these sensors in my configuration they all show as unknown, however. I have a home zone set and ā€˜peopleā€™ set up with a sensor that reports GPS coordinates per person back to my Home Assistant instance (via Tasker). I do have other sensors set up in case my Tasker configuration fails, but is there something else I need to do to get this working correctly?

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Cannot confirm this. I used the old proximity integration in the past for my blueprints. It was very comfortable to have all information in one entity. Now I have to select all dynamically to prevent of providing a 2nd selector. This could be another error source for the userā€¦ Canā€™t understand this decision. Maybe its more comfortable for a newby.
I also provide multiple proximity entities. Now I have to combine them in code to create a tuple. Arghhhhā€¦

//EDIT: read to fast :wink: understand the opposite