Moving this to a GitHub issue. Not sure how to fix this yet so I don’t want it to fall off my list.
There is a new Release 2.5.1, is it actually released?
Asking because my re-downloaded “manifest.json” shows “2.5”.
Is there a way to check if the current location is at a gas station?
You could go to a gas station and see what the place_type attribute says ?
Yes, v2.5.1 is released. I typically forget to update the manifest regularly so it is generally only updated for whole or 10th number increases (ex. to v2.6 or v3).
As a result - users cannot be sure if they have the latest version.
Hi all,
I was using a version of this integration for about 7-8 months, it was working well. But I recently updated to the latest version and when trying to create a sensor, it says ‘No devices or entities found’.
Have tried completely removing the integration and re-adding, but same error. It seems to happen with different GPS tracker types.
The logs dont seem to have any errors relating to the integration.
Hello! Thanks for this great integration. I am using Places for some automations, but I was wondering is there a way to get the state from the sensor to show up in the person-card? Or rather if I could replace the device tracker form HA app with the one from places. Problem is that places only creates a sensor, and not a device tracker of its own. Anyone else been pondering with this?
Places require an entity which keeps coordinates - like a person or device_tracker.
Your question is rather unclear - if you need to show a person or a device_tracker on some card, why not using THAT source entity?
Hello and thanks for responding. I guess my question is a bit ambiguous. I do have device_trackers today, but the problem is when my familiy is on the HA dashboad they look at the icon on the home-page to find out where “mom” is now.
That is mostly fine. But the status could be very misleading. Often it will say “away”, 4 hours ago. Even if the location is updated recently the status has not. So in my simple mind I wanted to use the sensor from Places to replace the status of the device_tracker, or create a custom card that achieves the same, but with status from places instead of the device_tracker from the HA companion app.
Make sense?
The simpler = the better.
Prefer to use Places only to get an address, for all other needs - using person/device_tracker.
This is fantastic and exaclty what I was looking for. Thank you!
One question: I have a tile now on my dashboard that identifies people and where they are. Right now, when I click it, I get the “more information” panel.
Is there a way to click it and it takes me to google maps with the address preloaded in?
You can call an “url” type action with a web link.
But this link is stored as an attribute. To use this attribute, you will have to use a template - jinja or JS, in a card which supports templates, like config-template-card, template-entity-row, button-card. Or a stock markdown card.
Hi,
When i add the map link to an iframe card it stays blank. To keep it simple for testing, i just copy the url from the attribute map_link. This is the case with each google maps link. I think it‘s a restriction by google. With OSM i had no success as well.
Can someone post a actual working solution to show the url in iframe?
Thank you
Just discovered this integration and love it! It solves my problem with reverse geocoding position of trackers without Companion App.
But I face the problem with one of my sensors, one for my car. I created it in integration configuration using associated device tracker, sensor is created, but it seems not work as expected.
Here is configuration of the sensor (and it exactly the same as for other working sensors, with exception that for other I use person entity to trac, here I use device tracker):
Here is source device tracker data (clealry containing position and being able to track the zone:
And here is how sensor resulting from this device tracke looks like:
It does not resolve the zone nor the address of tracked device. Seems there is sometniong wrong with config flow for this device, as in config/custom_componentc/places I can see json files created for other tracked devices, but not for this one. I went even step further, as seems that sensors created from person entity works - I created new person from my car device tracker and used it as a source for places… but result is exactly the same as for direct use of device tracker 
What might be wrong here?
Try disabling Use GPS Accuracy for entities where the GPS Accuracy always reports as 0.
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OK, I fugured it out… turned out that Audi MMI integration, that creates the source device tracker, failed again on me, creating new set of sensors for my car, with changed name… So while old device_tracker still existed, was somehow ‘inactive’ for places integration not creatinng proper sensor. After cleaning it up (and also disabling GPS accuracy, as it is 0) now proper snesor with decoded address is creatred!
Hi, can someone please point me in the right direction?
When in zone “home” no matter the language or display option i select i alwasy see “home” as state but I want to show “Casa” (casa means home in italian). So basically there’s a way to show localized name instead of english one?
Thanks