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Iello

I am getting a bit of mixed "results" when i read about it online some say it cant work and others say i can.
Tho to be fair the posts could just be outdated.

I am curently failing to find the referance to the one it not working but it talked about new entety based tracking vs "old" "style" ?

I was using this as a "base line"
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-set-person-to-away-after-a-certain-time-has-passed-since-last-update/774595/2

I want to set the phone with GPS status to not_home if device is inactive and has not reported time in X time

maybe there is a different method.
i have added a Pfsense and Ping tracker for the LAN, but issue is that if EG wireguard fails and i am not home, the status remails as "home" and i use this status to send notifications FROM frigate.

Not getting an allert is worse than getting a false alert, but i also dont walt 100's of alerts.

Test action:
action: device_tracker.see
metadata: {}
data:
location_name: not_home
dev_id: XYZ

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How to set person to 'away' after a certain time has passed since l...

You could use a Template trigger based on the last_reported property. Instead of the python script overwriting the existing device tracker, you can use an automation that calls the device_tracker.see service. Calling the service with an unknown dev_id will create a new device_tracker entity that can be added to your person. Device tracker serv...

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