I’m just playing around but I was wanting to trigger an action, say unlock my PC when my phone connects to the wifi. How would I go about doing this?
I’ve added the device_tracker into my configuration yaml file. This is where it gets strange. Firstly, I thought a device would be listed under device but apparently they go under entities. Under Config > Entities, nothing that’s hooked to my router appears. Yet, when I go to Configurator, I can see them all listed. And under People I could assign my PC and mobile to myself.
Can someone please explain the above? And guide me or point me in the right direction for doing a very basic geolocation set up?
To be frank, everything in the “devices” & “entities” section is only half useful at this point. Not all “devices” or “entities” will appear there. The only things that appear there are those that support that functionality in the integration and that is completely up to the developer of the integration. A lot of them use it but a lot of others don’t. I think it’s confusing to new people but that’s just my opinion.
OTOH, you will always find every entity listed in the “developers tools->states” section. Use that instead of the others for finding entities.
Don’t get me wrong you can likely find most devices/entities in the other sections and you can do some other things from there (rename/remove/disable/enable) that you can’t easily find in other sections.