Expose MSR entities

[CatmanV2]

Probably a really dumb question.

Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.

Digging around with Home Assistant and toying with some dashboards, is there any way of exposing that sensor to HA trivially? I could set MSR to trip a virtual switch in OpenLuup which can then be exposed to HA (with all my other Vera devices) but that feels a bit in-elegant if I can do it directly.

Any thoughts?

Apologies if the ask is not clear/

TIA

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[toggledbits]

@CatmanV2 said in Expose MSR entities:

Apologies if the ask is not clear/

Yeah, sorry. It's not at all clear to me what you're asking here. I'm reading "I have an owntracks_sensor in Home Assistant... is there any way to expose that sensor (which comes from Home Assistant) to Home Assistant trivially?" Uh... what?

[CatmanV2]

Yes that was stupid of me! Sorry!

said in Expose MSR entities:

Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in

MSR! Not HA!

So the owntracks_sensor exists in MSR and works great. I'm wondering if there's an easy way to expose to HA

What a buffoon

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[Crille]

If you are using MQTT you can echo the entity in the MSR config and create a MQTT entity in Home Assistant

[toggledbits]

I am still completely confused. Yes, Reactor will publish the sensor from HA. I use that myself. But since the Reactor sensor entity comes from HA, why would want to publish Reactor's entity back to HA then?

[Crille]

I believe the owntracks_sensor only exists in Reactor.

[toggledbits]

@CatmanV2 said in Expose MSR entities:

Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in HA and it works great.

I'm reading this as "it's coming from HA."

Is it actually an MQTT entity created using the owntracks_in_region template of MQTTController? Because there's nothing natively called owntracks_sensor in Reactor.

[CatmanV2]

Sorry I tried to make it clear. For the avoidance of doubt the original post should (and shortly will) read
'Currently I am using the owntracks_sensor for tracking phones being in region in MSR and it works great.'

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[CatmanV2]

@toggledbits this is precisely what it is, yes

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