Navigate to coordinates

The Navigate to coordinates action sends a latitude and longitude to your Tesla vehicle’s navigation. Use it when you need an exact location rather than an address.

Using this action from the user interface

If you prefer building automations and scripts visually, Home Assistant walks you through this action step by step. You pick what to target, tweak a few options, and save. No YAML knowledge required.

To send a destination from an automation or a script:

1. Go to Settings > Automations & scenes.
2. Open an existing automation or script, or select Create automation > Create new automation.
3. If you’re setting up a new automation, add a trigger in the When section. Scripts don’t need a trigger. They run when something else calls them.
4. In the Then do section, select Add action.
5. From the search box, search for and select Tesla Fleet: Navigate to coordinates.
6. Select the Vehicle to send the destination to.
7. Set the Location by picking the place on the map.
8. Select Save.

Options in the UI

Using this action in YAML

If you work directly in YAML, or you want to know exactly what Home Assistant does under the hood, this section has the technical reference. It lists the field names you use in YAML, their types, and which ones are required. For how an automation or a script is built in YAML, refer to Automations in YAML and Scripts.

In YAML, refer to this action as tesla_fleet.navigate_to_coordinates. A basic example looks like this:

action: tesla_fleet.navigate_to_coordinates
data:
  device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
  gps:
    latitude: -27.9699373
    longitude: 153.4081865

Options in YAML

Good to know

• The vehicle is woken up if needed, and the Vehicle Commands scope is required.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Settings > Tools > Actions, search for this action, fill in the fields, and select Perform action. You see what happens on your actual entitiesAn entity represents a sensor, actor, or function in Home Assistant. Entities are used to monitor physical properties or to control other entities. An entity is usually part of a device or a service. [Learn more] without writing a line of YAML.

More examples

Real scenarios where this action shows up in automations and scripts. Copy any example and adapt it to your setup. In the visual editor, select the UI options listed in the example or paste the YAML code.

Automation: navigate home when leaving work

When you leave the work zone, send your home location to the car so navigation is ready when you get in.

• Trigger: Zone: you leave the work zone
• Action: Navigate to coordinates, with the location of your home zone

alias: "Navigate home when leaving work"
triggers:
  - trigger: zone
    entity_id: person.alex
    zone: zone.work
    event: leave
actions:
  - action: tesla_fleet.navigate_to_coordinates
    data:
      device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
      gps:
        latitude: "{{ state_attr('zone.home', 'latitude') }}"
        longitude: "{{ state_attr('zone.home', 'longitude') }}"

Automation: navigate to a charger when the battery is low

When the battery level drops below 20%, send the location of your preferred charger to the car. The charger location is a zone that you create separately.

• Trigger: Numeric state: the battery level sensor goes below 20
• Action: Navigate to coordinates, with the location of your charger zone

alias: "Navigate to charger when battery is low"
triggers:
  - trigger: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.my_tesla_battery_level
    below: 20
actions:
  - action: tesla_fleet.navigate_to_coordinates
    data:
      device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
      gps:
        latitude: "{{ state_attr('zone.charger', 'latitude') }}"
        longitude: "{{ state_attr('zone.charger', 'longitude') }}"

Still stuck?

To test the action on its own, run it in the automation editor with Run action, and check the message that it shows. To see what the action did when the automation ran, open the trace of that run. For details, refer to Testing automations. For common problems and their solutions, refer to Troubleshooting automations.

If that doesn’t help, the Home Assistant community is quick to help: join Discord for real-time chat, post on the community forum with the action you’re calling and what you expected to happen, or share on our subreddit /r/homeassistant.

Related actions

Explore related actions:

• Navigate to destination: Sets the vehicle’s navigation to an address, place name, or map link.