Showing pets on a HA map using Tractive integration

Third party integrations
1

Has anyone been able to display a pet location on a dashboard map using Tractive GPS collars ? How can you do that ? Thank you.

Edit: I am looking to a google map style of card rather than the default HA map which is very basic.

2

The Tractive integration creates device_tracker entities for each of your pets. You can add those entities to a map dashboard widget to show their location on a map.

If your collars are configured to use your home’s Wi-Fi as a safe zone, you will not see any detailed location information when they are near your Wi-Fi. I have successfully used the Bermuda integration and some ESPHome Bluetooth proxies to track my cats within my home using their collars. That integration reports the closest BT proxy for each cat, but it cannot yet accurately find the position of each cat to show on a floor plan.

3

Thanks, have reached that but the default HA map card is way too basic compared to the one from the Tractive mobile App. Also, it displays the home circle zone that is not similar to my yard zone. I am more looking at a Google map style of card on the dashboard. Thanks

4

Maybe we can get something that looks like the Tractive apps using InfluxDB and Grafana. Grafana has a maps feature and I believe it can do heat maps. It’s not HA native though.

5

Any progress?

6

I did get it working with influxdb / grafana.
It’s not a plug&play solution, requires tinkering.

IIRC, here is what I did:

  1. spin up an InfluxDB container in your docker stack
  2. same for Grafana
  3. enable InfluxDB persistence in home assistant: The correct silly-walk to set up InfluxDB as of August 2025
  4. Set up InfluxDB as a data source in Grafana
  5. Connect to Grafana console
  6. Create a Geomap widget
  7. Add the following query to the widget:
SELECT 
  last("latitude") AS lat, 
  last("longitude") AS lon 
FROM "state"
WHERE ("entity_id" = 'taiga_tracker' # replace this with the entity ID of the device tracker created by the Tractive integration. Ex: for device_tracker.taiga_tracker, just enter taiga_tracker
AND "latitude"::field > 0 OR "latitude"::field < 0)
AND $timeFilter
GROUP BY time($__interval) fill(null)

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