Why the heck is knowndevies.yaml still being generated as the deocumentation page for device trackers states that this file was outphased?
Because some integrations haven’t been updated since then.
Thx for the reply!
May this be the same reason why BL & BLE device tracker is not working anymore for me? Guess could be conflicting with the new HA internal BLE integration…
The BLE tracker integration has been updated for the new BT support.
The old BT tracker hasn’t been, and is likely the thing that’s creating that file.
I checked again: I have both trackers activated and both are writing to the file using prefix BT_ or BLE_ for the mac adresses. Mayby the documentation can be improved to be more clear what is actually going on
It’s also still useful as a method to create virtual device trackers for mobile devices that do not have GPS capability. You can use use the device_tracker.see
service to assign them a zone based on their WiFi SSID.