Unavailable trigger

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Ok, I am a bit dumbfounded of what I can do. I have a device location trigger that fires when there is a change. Issue is that the device will go “unavailable” then home.

When this happens my garage will open because there is a switch connected to the trigger (as you figured is set to my car) for home and not home to open or close the garage. I figure I can add a 3rd value to the switch for unavailable, but what do i do when it then goes back to home. I would prefer not to put another switch before the existing switch that will filter out the unavailable but that may be my only choice.

Help if you can

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at the bottom of the call service node, there are several check boxes to stop that from happening.

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That was the first thing i did. it still will pass it on and then a home. Its passed as a status for some stupid reason.

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You need to share the sequence then so we can see what nodes you are using and how they are configured.

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All it is is getting the device_tracker event state when it changes.

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And the checkbox named “previous state is unavailable”?
Your problem was when it was unavailable and became home.
And that is what that checkbox prohibits.

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so should i uncheck the current state is unknown or unavailable and switch to previous or use both do you think?

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Check the boxes you find appropriate for your sequence.
I don’t know anything about it since you didn’t share it.
I don’t know if you filter something or if you use the unknown current state to something.

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I just don’t want the garage to open if it becomes unavailable then says its home. I want it to ignore the unavailable value completely

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Then ignore those values with the checkboxes.
I assume that means all checkboxes

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lets see if that works, its annoying to keep having the garage open overnight

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Checked last night and it is good. There was an unavailable and it didn’t do anything.

Now if I could get it so that the car location was better. I have a Tesla and the HACS integration works, but doesn’t refresh well enough. I had to get the node red API and loop for when I’m away. Literally took 5 sometime 10 minutes to know that I’m away.

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Doesn’t the car connect to wifi? Use the device tracker for the ip if your router has an integration. Otherwise set up a ping sensor in HA.

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I thought of doing that, but it too takes a while to know if its away. Also if it disconnects and it will think its away. The ones in red was just because of disconnect.

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What if you add the condition that your phone needs to be connected to the car via bluetooth.

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Thats a pretty good idea, now I have to figure out which connected device Mac ID is the car. There isn’t an easy way to figure that out other than connecting?