Guys I’m a complete newbie on this and am using lots of your guys scripts and knowledge to get things up and running I have used the code in the components area without any errors but I cant see to get any output or info into HA. I know my MQTT is working as have send messages to the pi via HA bu…

I have no know_devices.yaml file. I have discovery up and running and they haven’t appeared on the home page. I do have a number of different *.conf files for other devices like by tv and hue lights but nothing for this owntracks device. I’m still in testing at the moment so I have opened up the p…

Well I’m no expert on this stuff either but I will help where I can, usually with just the basic checks. So let’s start there. Being a newbie I’m going to assume that you don’t have iptables or firewalld running on your Pi/MQTT server. Generally speaking if you didn’t set it up it won’t be running. …

[image] Paul_Duggins: I have the connect mode set to private MQTT and the host is my pi ip address and port 1883 and in identification I have put the username and password I set up on the pi , device ID I have put my name and tracker ID is blank. For tracker ID just throw in a 2 letter system…

Hi Paul, I’ve been starting with HA recently and this video helped me setting up owntracks with cloudmqtt: [How To Get Started with MQTT and Owntracks] There are some other helpful tutorials around there…

Hi @forsquirel At the moment I have registered duckdns but haven’t set up any port forwarding at home so not tested that far. as I was sat at home working yesterday I was hoping I could test from being inside my internal network. But im not even seeing a map on my HA set up Im using a raspberry pi…

No map option on the left hand side to click? No map at all? Or just a patchy map? In Chrome it works perfectly for me, but occasionally in Firefox i get a patchy map. No map option at all - perhaps something is wrong with the HA install? The Map component is integrated, short of a reinstall of …

@elPaulio @forsquirel @oembob So guys im nearly there I think I used the BruH video above and have set up my phone and my HA code below device_tracker: platform: owntracks max_gps_accuracy: 200 mqtt: broker: m20.cloudmqtt.com port: 18014 client_id: HA-1 keepalive: 60 username: MY Userna…

This? [image] Show Google Maps as a card Example how to show a Google Map as a Google card.

Yes that is exactly what I am after, I just need to yaml code for my product not the one in the example

best way to learn, code it. troubleshoot it until it works. if not, post here, and we’ll sort it out :slight_smile:

Tryig to set up HA with Owntracks and MQTT on android phone

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