Zone.home entity doesn't update its state

[rdl987]

Hello, I have two boolean input helpers that I use to trigger an automation that set a custom device tracker (mapped in known_devices.yaml) at home and at not_home. But from one week the zone.home entity doesn’t increase or decrease its state accordingly.

Could anyone help me?

Thank you so much

P.S. my home assistant Core version is 2026.7.2

[PeteRage]

There has been significant change recently in the way zone state is calculated. I don’t understand the details, but that could be the root cause.

[Edwin_D]

zones only count persons, not device trackers. Is the device tracker linked to a person?

If so then it is likely a bug. But you mention you use an automation, which implies you use device_tracker.see which was recently deprecated and will be removed 6 months after deprecation.

You may be able to avoid the problem if you move to the new way, which is to define a template device tracker helper (new functionality) instead of using known_devices (also deprecated for years now) and device_tracker.see

Device tracker - Template

[Idaho947]

Check out this thread, but we’ll have to rework things. I haven’t found a solution that works 100% for me yet.

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[rdl987]

Thank you for the support, using the device tracker template I solved my problem.

Thank you