Zones - Add status feature for 'Leaving' and 'Arriving'

Feature Requests
1

Currently Zones are great for knowing when you are Home or Away, as per the existing ‘radius’ variable.

But I would like to see the addition of a second (outer), and larger, radius variable to help specify states for ‘Leaving’ and ‘Arriving’.

Examples:
I’m driving home from work and I first enter the outer radius (which might be a distance of 2km), and my status changes to ‘Arriving Home’. This triggers automations for turning on my heating system, and starts warming up the oven.
I then reach my inner radius setting my status to ‘Home’. This opens my garage door, turns on some lights and the TV.

I’m leaving home, and as I leave the inner radius my status is changed to ‘Leaving Home’. This triggers an alert that I might have forgotten something at home, and arms the alarm.
I then reach the outer radius setting my status to ‘Away’. This checks to see if anyone else is at home, and if not it turns off the TV which I accidentally left on.

In the instance where you might have a zone for other places such as work, then it would say ‘Arriving Work’ or ‘Leaving Work’. Or whatever the name of your zone is.

An example YAML sequence.

- name: Home
  latitude: 32.8793367
  longitude: -117.2474053
  radius_inner: 100
  radius_outer: 2000
  icon: mdi:account-multiple

Another option for the YAML could be to have multiple radii providing further flexibility. I personally don’t need this, but others might.

- name: Home
  latitude: 32.8793367
  longitude: -117.2474053
  radius_1: 100
  radius_2: 1000
  radius_3: 2000
  icon: mdi:account-multiple

I know this can be achieved via other components or complex automations, but I feel this addition would be simpler.

2

Very good idea! The automations aren’t complex, though. You just need to make a slightly bigger zone, and create two automations that trigger whenever you change from the smaller to the bigger one, and another for vice versa.

3

You don’t even need to do that. Automations already do what @Brausmith’s end goal is: Leaving or arriving notifications, which can be triggered by zone triggers.

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: zone
    entity_id: device_tracker.paulus
    zone: zone.home
    # Event is either enter or leave
    event: enter # or "leave"
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