Hi,
I live in a high populated area and I end up parking my car (relatively) far from home and in a different position almost every day.
I’d like to be able to see on the Home-Assistant Map where I left my car the day before, so I though about buying something like Airtag / Smat tag 2, but I read that neither works well with HA.
Is there any device that have a working integration with HA?
I don’t need it to be real time tracking, for me it’s enough that it remembers where I left it the day before (basically where my phone lost it).
I use a mini gps tracker and tracarr for my bag. Its designed for cars and vehicles though so might be worth checking out. The TKstar gps modules on ali express have been rock solid for me in the UK but tracarr supports a lot of them.
Most of the tk trackers are 2g network though. May need one of the newer ones if no 2g networks in your area, i know a lot of places have planned to phase them out. I paid for a £10 sim over 2 years ago now and its still not used all the data.
Alternatively, what about an old android phone with the companion app? Simpler to setup.
You can use device_tracker.see to set the position of a device_tracker entity (an entity you create “car”) to the position of the phone.
If you do this when the bluetooth connection is lost then you get the position of the car in a device tracker entity
I use a mini gps tracker and tracarr for my bag. Its designed for cars and vehicles though so might be worth checking out. The TKstar gps modules on ali express have been rock solid for me in the UK but tracarr supports a lot of them.
Most of the tk trackers are 2g network though. May need one of the newer ones if no 2g networks in your area, i know a lot of places have planned to phase them out. I paid for a £10 sim over 2 years ago now and its still not used all the data.
Alternatively, what about an old android phone with the companion app? Simpler to setup.
The main problem with an old phone is battery life, it would last a couple of days, probably. And I should have a charger in the car, too.
I think it’s too complicated.
I’ll check TKstar gps modules, but I think in Italy both 2g and 3g networks have been permanently shut down, now there’s only 4g (and 5g).
I though about Smart tag (or Air tag or similar) because they seem really simple, but unfortunately there’s no integration on HA.
You can use device_tracker.see to set the position of a device_tracker entity (an entity you create “car”) to the position of the phone.
If you do this when the bluetooth connection is lost then you get the position of the car in a device tracker entity
You are welcome. Yeah that is something i didnt consider with the old phone, good point. Ive not had any joy with bluetooth stuff myself so didnt recommend but what hellis mentioned should work, pretty sure i saw a thread on here with that method beeb discussed.
There are 4g gps modules by tk and other brands but ive no experience with them personally. Tracarr has some overhead too and you’ll need to forward some ports on your router if you run the HA addon.