PAJ GPS

The PAJ GPS integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to incorporate PAJ GPS devices from <www.paj-gps.de> into your Home Assistant.

It provides entities for tracking the location of your PAJ GPS devices and monitoring their speed.

Possible use cases

  • Track the location of your PAJ GPS devices on a map in Home Assistant.
  • Create automations based on the location or status of your PAJ GPS devices (for example, open garage door when car is near).

Supported devices

All PAJ GPS devices that are compatible with the PAJ GPS cloud platform (<www.v2.finder-portal.com>) should work with this integration. The integration is using official API provided by PAJ GPS, so it should be compatible with all devices that are supported by the API. If you encounter any issues with PAJ GPS devices, please report them.

Prerequisites

  • To use this integration you need to have an account on <www.v2.finder-portal.com> and your device must be properly configured and connected to the platform.
  • You then authenticate the integration with the same credentials you use to log in on <www.v2.finder-portal.com>. This data will be saved only in your Home Assistant and is required to generate API tokens.

Configuration

To add the PAJ GPS hub to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

Email

Email address used to log in on <www.v2.finder-portal.com>.

Password

Password used to log in on <www.v2.finder-portal.com>.

Supported functionality

The PAJ GPS integration provides the following entities.

Device tracker

The PAJ GPS integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] will track the location of each device registered to your account. The integration provides real-time GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for your PAJ GPS devices.

Sensors

  • Speed
    • Description: The current speed of the PAJ GPS device in km/h, as reported by the GPS module.

Examples

Opening the garage door when a car with a PAJ GPS device is near using automations:

alias: Open garage door for the car
description: "If car enters the home zone, open the garage door"
triggers:
  - trigger: zone
    entity_id: person.car_tracker
    zone: zone.home
    event: enter
actions:
  - action: button.press
    target:
      entity_id: button.garage_door_open

Data updates

  • The location updates are not real-time and depend on the polling intervals, so there may be a small delay (up to 30 seconds) in receiving updates about the device’s location or status.

Known limitations

  • The integration relies on the PAJ GPS cloud API, so if there are any issues with the API or your internet connection, the integration may not work properly.
  • PAJ GPS devices also rely on GPS and cellular signals, so if the device is in an area with poor signal, the location updates may be inaccurate or delayed.

Troubleshooting

No battery level sensor available

The battery level sensor is not currently available in this integration.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
  3. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.