Navigate to coordinates

The Navigate to coordinates action sends a destination to your Tesla vehicle’s navigation system using latitude and longitude coordinates. The vehicle starts routing to that location, just as if you had searched for it on the in-car screen.

Use it to push a destination to the car from an automation, for example sending the address of an upcoming calendar appointment to the vehicle before you leave, or starting navigation home when you tap a button.

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 Teslemetry: Navigate to coordinates.
6. Select the Vehicle to send the destination to.
7. Set the Location to the coordinates you want to navigate to.
8. Optional: set the Order if you are sending more than one destination.
9. 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.

In YAML, refer to this action as teslemetry.navigation_gps_request. A basic example looks like this:

action: teslemetry.navigation_gps_request
data:
  device_id: 0d462c0c4c0b064b1a91cdbd1ffcbd31
  gps:
    latitude: -27.9699373
    longitude: 153.4081865

This sets the vehicle’s navigation to the given coordinates.

Options in YAML

Good to know

• The vehicle must be awake and online to receive the destination.

Try it yourself

Ready to test this? Open Developer 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.

Still stuck?

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

These actions work well alongside this one:

• Set scheduled charging: Sets a time at which the vehicle should start charging.

• Set scheduled departure: Sets a departure time so the vehicle schedules charging and preconditioning.

• Set valet mode: Turns valet mode on or off for the vehicle.