Proximity in Home Assistant
proximity
part of Home Assistant since 0.13
Proximity is an official Home Assistant integration for Automation and Presence detection. Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Calculated – Works on data Home Assistant already has, without a device of its own.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Integration
- Quality scale
- Internal – Part of Home Assistant itself, not rated separately.
- Installations
- 21,774 (3.2 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Automation, Presence detection
- Provides
- Diagnostics, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @mib1185
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Proximity.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
0 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Proximity in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.7.1.
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.7.1 Bug fix #172602
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 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