Traccar Server

Traccar uses GPS for tracking and has support for over 1500 different types of devices. You can use the Traccar Server integration to communicate with your own Traccar Server, which is also available as Home Assistant add-on.

Configuration

To add the Traccar Server integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Events

The Traccar Server integration options allow you to define a list of events you want to listen for. These events will be sent to Home Assistant as events.

All events will be prefixed with traccar_ followed by a snake_cased version of the event name. Examples:

• The deviceMoving will be fired in Home Assistant as traccar_device_moving.
• The geofenceExit will be fired in Home Assistant as traccar_geofence_exit.
• The alarm will be fired in Home Assistant as traccar_alarm.

All events will also have the following data:

{
    "device_traccar_id": 24,
    "device_name": "My Device",
    "type": "alarm",
    "serverTime": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "attributes": {
      "custom_attribute": "value"
    },
}

Devices

The Traccar Server integration will create devices for each device registered in the Traccar Server with at least one position update.

These device representations in Home Assistant will have entities associated with them, which you can use in automations, scripts, and display on your dashboard.

Entities

The traccar server integration will create entities in with the following domains:

• Device Tracker

For more details about each of these, see the sections below.

Device Tracker

The Traccar Server integration will create a device tracker entity for each device registered in Traccar Server.

Examples

So you set up the integration and it pulled in all your devices. Now what? Below are some examples of what you can do with the data provided by Traccar Server integration.

Automations

In this section you will find some example automations that you can use to get started with the Traccar Server integration.

Do something when a device enters a geofence

The allows you to do something when the device device_tracker.millennium_falcon enters the defined geofence.

trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.millennium_falcon
    attribute: geofence
    to: 'Tatooine'
action:
  ...

Do something when a device are speeding

The allows you to do something when the device device_tracker.millennium_falcon exceeds a defined speed.

trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: device_tracker.millennium_falcon
    attribute: speed
    above: 1337
action:
  ...

trigger:
  ...
action:
  - service: notify.notify
    data:
      message: "The current speed of the Millennium falcon is !"