How do i automate setting home location on gps update?
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silent ocean
silent ocean
using gpsd integration i tried to set home location but i have no idea how to reference the proper values
thorny flame
How do i automate setting home location on gps update?
at first i was thinking "how often are you changing your homes location?"
but I guess you are you running in in a vehicle?
silent ocean
yes
thorny flame
you will want to switch to templating the values
yaml of the action:
action: homeassistant.set_location
metadata: {}
data:
latitude: "{{states('sensor.latitude')|float}}"
longitude: "{{states('sensor.longitude')|float}}"
change states('sensor.latitude') to whatever is needed to get your actual value obviously
thorny flame
not directly but you might be able find a integration/card that looks up that info based on home location.
system timezone is also set independently of location
thorny flame
thanks youve been great
no worries, i hope you get it working the way you want it to. i have been looking up if theres an easy way to automate timezone changes but it doesnt seem like there is a way
you might be able to do it on command line then set a shell command integration to do it. but that feels messy and i am not sure how reliable it would be
its an interesting problem but realistically... its not really designed for this 😛
silent ocean
ok forget HA, how do i get the rasberrypi to update its system clock
thorny flame
ok forget HA, how do i get the rasberrypi to update its system clock
what type of install are you running? haos or container?
thorny flame
in your compose file your using:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
i assume which makes it inherit from the host OS
on hacs there is an intergration called "SSH" which allows you to send ssh commands.
so you could have it depend a command to the host system via ssh
then you would send something like
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London
you might have to then restart the ha container though. I am not really sure
although you will have to tackle the password for sudo
echo "<your_password>" | sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London
would work i guess although maybe a little insecure...
although you will still have to work out the timezone somehow
silent ocean
sounds fun, i'll see about it later
thorny flame
yeah indeed, although not a direct solution i hope i have pushed you in a direction that may lead to getting it working.