Setting up Cloudmqtt, Owntracks and HA

Configuration
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hi there,

i’m trying to get mqtt, owntracks and HA to get to work together. My phone has the owntracks app on it and sends data to cloudmqtt. I can see that in the websocket ui. I used bruh automatisation tutorial for that:

my config file shows this:
mqtt:
broker: m21.cloudmqtt.com
port: 15904
username: <ha_account>
password:
client_id: homeassistant
keepalive: 60

device_tracker:

  • platform: owntracks_http
    interval_seconds: 10
    consider_home: 180
    track_new_devices: yes

zone:

  • name: Home
    latitude: x0.1x2x3x
    longitude: x.5x7x1x
    radius: 100
    icon: mdi:home

known_devices.yaml was not created so I created it on my own with following information:

oneplus5:
name: myName
mac: 9x:x5:xD:7x:xC:xE
picture: https://home-assistant.io/images/favicon-192x192.png
gravatar: [email protected]
track: yes
hide_if_away: no

I can see the device in the HA frontend with status away. The zone “home” shows up in the frontend as well and owntracks has the same home zone configured.

I cannot trigger the device status from not_home to home. What to do? It seems something is missing? Do you need some kind of port forwarding to get the information from cloudmqtt into HA?

Cheers
Sven

2

Please format your code properly (as stated in the bluebox above your post) this helps reading your code. As for your problem you seem to mix owntracks_http and MQTT. You should either follow these instructions:


Or this: