WTH Can't I just use proximity from Person to Person?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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It is easy to use proximity from Person to a Zone. But using it from Person to Person, is a whole other deal to accomplish. Certainly now during Corona, when I am not allowed to travel to my loved ones, It would be nice to see in an easy way, where they are, and how far I am away from them. (And no, this is not depressing to me) :slight_smile:

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You can’t use the Proximity integration, but you may be able to do something using template sensors with the distance method (which returns the distance in kilometres between entities or latitudes and longitudes):

For example:

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      distance_me_and_them:
        value_template: >-
          {{ distance('person.me','person.them') }}
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Thank you! I’ll try!!!