Zone
Zones allow you to specify certain regions on earth (for now). When a device tracker sees a device to be within a zone, the state will take the name from the zone. Zones can also be used as a trigger or condition inside automation setups.
The Zone component uses YAML sequences to configure multiple zones:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
zone:
- name: School
latitude: 32.8773367
longitude: -117.2494053
radius: 250
icon: mdi:school
- name: Work
latitude: 32.8753367
longitude: -117.2474053
# This will override the default home zone
- name: Home
latitude: 32.8793367
longitude: -117.2474053
radius: 100
icon: mdi:account-multiple
Configuration variables:
- name (Optional): Friendly name of the zone.
- latitude (Required): Latitude of the center point of the zone.
- longitude (Required): Longitude of the center point of the zone.
- radius (Optional): Optional radius in meters. Defaults to 100 meters.
- icon (Optional): Optional icon to show instead of name.
- passive (Optional): Optional boolean to only use the zone for automation and hide it from the UI and not use the zone for device tracker name. Defaults to false.
To find the latitude/longitude of a certain place you can use Google Maps or Bing Maps. Just right click and copy the coordinates from there (Bing) or click on the “What is here?” (Google)
Home zone
If no configuration is given, the zone component will create a zone for home. This zone will use location provided in the configuration.yaml file and have a radius of 100 meters. To override this, create a zone configuration and name it ‘Home’.
Devices that are in the zone ‘Home’ will not appear on the map in the Home Assistant UI.
Icons
It is preferred to pick an icon to use for your zone. Pick any icon that you can find on materialdesignicons.com and prefix the name with mdi:. For example mdi:school, mdi:worker, mdi:home, mdi:cart, or mdi:castle.
State
zoning is the state a zone has when it is configured. A zone doesn’t have another state; all configured zones are zoning all the time.