Home Assistant goes geo with OwnTracks
A few weeks have past and it is time again for another release: version 0.7.4. This time we’re very glad to be able to introduce brand new integration with OwnTracks to allow tracking of people on a map. The geo support consists of three different parts:
- OwnTracks platform for the device tracker to get locations for devices
- Brand new zone component to define zones to identify locations and trigger automation
- A map in the UI to see all this (see it in action in the demo)
We have added a new getting started section to get up and running.
Map in Home Assistant showing two people and three zones (home, school, work)
Ofcourse more things happened in the last three weeks. I’m moving away from my usual long post to a short summary of highlights:
- Sensor: rest platform added (@fabaff)
- Alarm Control Panel: MQTT platform added (@sfam)
- Media Player: Plex platform added ([@miniconfig](https://github.com/miniconfig, @adrienbrault)
- Dev Tools: services can now show description of fields (@balloob)
- MQTT: Support for certificates and improved error reporting (@balloob)
- Light: limitlessled platform extended with white light support (@auchter)
- Fuzzy matching for scenes (@pavoni)
- Scene support for media player (@maddox)