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Device tracker in Home Assistant
device_tracker
part of Home Assistant since 0.7
Quality: Internal
Device tracker is an official Home Assistant integration for Presence detection.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Setup
- in configuration.yaml
- Kind
- Entity type
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 15,194 (2.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Presence detection
- Maintained by
- @home-assistant/core
Setup
- Nothing to install: this is part of Home Assistant and available as soon as it is running.
Blueprints that use this integration
- Automation Frigate Notifications (0.14.0.3l)
- Automation Automatic Gate ⛩️
- Automation ZEN32 and ZEN35 Scene and State (Z-Wave JS)(v2026.9.0)
- Automation Person: Status Update
- Automation Zone Presence of People & Devices
- Automation Tesla controlled charge rate based on power sensor
Known issues and fixes
2 open issues and 4 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Device tracker in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.
Open
- open Reported problem #179252
- open Reported problem #180274
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.8.0 Bug fix #178003
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 15, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration
