Autoskope

The Autoskope integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to integrate your Autoskope vehicle tracking devices with Home Assistant. Autoskope provides GPS tracking devices and cloud services for vehicles and other assets, offering GPS-based vehicle location tracking.

Supported devices

This integration works with all hardware devices offered by Autoskope.

Prerequisites

You need an active Autoskope account with at least one vehicle registered in the Autoskope web portal.

Configuration

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

Supported functionality

Entities

The Autoskope integration provides the following entities for each vehicle registered in your account.

Device trackers

A device tracker entity is created for each vehicle. It tracks the current location of the vehicle and reports the zone it is in (home, not_home, or a custom zone name). If no position data is available, the state is unavailable.

The following attributes are provided:

• source_type: Source of the location data (for example, gps).
• latitude: Latitude coordinate of the vehicle.
• longitude: Longitude coordinate of the vehicle.
• gps_accuracy: Estimated accuracy of the GPS signal in meters.

Examples

Notify when the vehicle arrives home

alias: "Notify when vehicle arrives home"
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.my_vehicle
    to: "home"
actions:
  - action: notify.mobile_app_your_phone
    data:
      message: "The vehicle has arrived home."

Data updates

The Autoskope integration pollsData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] the Autoskope API every 60 seconds to retrieve the latest location and status data for all registered vehicles.

Known limitations

Due to the 60-second polling interval, there will be a delay of up to 60 seconds before location or status changes are reflected in Home Assistant.

Troubleshooting

Connection failed during setup

Make sure the Host URL is correct. For most users, the default value https://portal.autoskope.de is correct. Also verify your username and password, and confirm that your Home Assistant instance can reach the Autoskope host (no firewall or DNS issues).

Vehicles not appearing

Log in to the Autoskope web portal or app and confirm that the vehicle is correctly registered, active, and associated with the account you used to set up the integration.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal.

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.

Entities and devices associated with vehicles that are removed from your Autoskope account will be automatically removed from Home Assistant during the next update cycle.