Proximity component examples?

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Does anyone use the proximity component in automations? I am interested setting the heat up higher as I get closer to home and am looking for examples.

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I haven’t seen it done so far.
Most likely what you would like to do is write an automation that checks your proximity and when it passes a trigger value it set your temperature to a preset value.

To have it change with more variation you would probally have to have a look at [AppDaemon] (https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/08/16/we-have-apps-now/).

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Here’s what I came up with. It worked yesterday on the way home, but comes with NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR etc etc

- alias: 'Turn heat up as I get closer to home'
  trigger:
    platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: proximity.home
    # Trigger when becoming 1-5 miles away
    below: 5
    above: 1
  condition:
    condition: and
    conditions:

        # Heading home
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ states.proximity.home.attributes.dir_of_travel == "towards" }}'

        # Not already set
      - condition: template
        # TODO figure out how to use a variable instead of hardcoding 62
        # I'm using secrets (like below) where heat_target_mid is 62, but I
        # don't see how to use it here
        value_template: '{{ states.thermostat.stelpro_stzw402_electronic_thermostat_heating_1_11.attributes.temperature != 62 }}'

        # Nobody home
      - condition: state
        entity_id: group.all_devices
        state: 'not_home'

        # Temp below target
#      - condition: numeric_state
#        entity_id: sensor.stelpro_stzw402_electronic_thermostat_temperature_11
#        below: !secret heat_target_mid

        # Automation enabled
      - condition: state
        entity_id: input_boolean.automation_override
        state: 'off'
  action:
    service: thermostat.set_temperature
    entity_id: thermostat.stelpro_stzw402_electronic_thermostat_heating_1_11
    data:
      temperature: !secret heat_target_mid
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Nice!

Try that out for a few days and if i works post it in the automation examples.
If you need help or don’t have time to do it yourself just tell me and I’ll give you a hand.
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