I see some of you use ble tracking with this. How did you find out the Mac address?
The cat tracker is designed to be on 24/7 so it is useful to see where she is in the house (when she is home!)
Daniel,
I am working on a revamped website for InCabinPets.com which is an air nanny company that is being rebranded and I am building the platform. One of the features we want to add is the ability to track pets in flight. We are planning on using Tractive but I am having a hard time finding th
eir API, do they still have one? Do you think this will work for us? or is there a better device? We want to sell the trackers to the customer at the purchase of their pets’ travel and then add the device ids to their profiles and show real-time pet tracking on our customer dashboards… thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Tim
Probably best if you contact tractive directly. They have been very nice when I have talked to them.
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I’m using ESPresense to do the Bluetooth presence detection, and it worked like a charm. On the fingerprints page the tracker is immediately obvious with the “tractive:” prefix on the ID.
And in my dashboard
Hi there, is it possible to add a BLE proxy so home assistant can force a tracker update every 5min? To sync the data manually from tracker to smart phone to cloud is manageable but a bit annoying. Or better question: Can home assistant fetch data via bluetooth from the tracker to the cloud?
I’m using this plugin now for almost a year and it works like a charm. Our dog isn’t a runaway tho so we use the data from tractive mostly for fun and gamification. Especially the “active minutes today” value is keeping us active with our dog.
Nope, not possible. The integration doesn’t work locally, meaning, the data the integration shows in HA is coming from the cloud, and not directly from the tracker.
The tracker is giving out a BT signal, that you can track with a BLE proxy in ESPHome or otherwise. But this is only like a beacon, where you can find out the UUID of the tracker, and handle it like a “normal” BT beacon.
If you configure the “home” Wifi in the tractive app, you as well will be able to ping the tracker via your router.
But keep in mind, tractive has a good “home” mode, that disables all network traffic from the tracker at times. 
Tanks for your answer! The beacon idea is good but in my case not practical as our dog is not wearing his collar with the tractive tracker at home, only when we go for a walk. After we come home we sync the tracker with the app so HA can show the cloud data as long as the tracker is available before going into deep sleep.
My question was more of a creative thinking of how could it be possible to sync the new tractive data the tracker created through the app to the cloud so HA can show it without syncing it manually.
Maybe an old always on android device with the tractive app on forced via automation to sync the tracker when pingable? Maybe tasker could help?
I’m not sure, what you’re talking about, sorry.
The data from the tracker should always be synchronized with the app, without you doing anything. 
The tracker should synchronize with the server while the tracker is active. This shouldn’t have anything to do with the app. But I’m not sure I understand you right.
The way this should work is like this:
- tracker communicates via GSM with the tractive server
- app calls server (automatically) and gets the data
- HA is the same as the app, it calls the server to get the data. If you will you could say, HA imposes as tractive app (that’s not really true, but for explanation purposes)
If you need to do a manual sync, something’s not right. 
Could you elaborate a little further, what you’re doing exactly while using tractive.
Just to say: in my case this works without any manual input, I have the tracker in the HA integration and an app on the phone. I get the data in HA as soon as the tractive server gets them.