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Tractive

Tractive is an Austrian company that develops real-time location trackers for pets and other animals using GPS and GSM technology.

The Tractive integration allows you to monitor locations of your pets from within Home Assistant and set up automations based on the information.

Configuration

To add the Tractive device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Tractive.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Email

The email address of your Tractive account.

Password

The password of your Tractive account.

Supported functionality

The Tractive integration provides the following entities for each pet registered in your Tractive account. The integration creates two devices per pet: a tracker device named Tracker followed by the tracker ID, which holds the entities related to the tracker hardware, and a device named after your pet, which holds the activity, rest, and sleep sensors.

Binary sensors

  • Charging
    • Description: Whether the tracker is charging.
    • Remarks: Only created for trackers that report their charging state.
  • Power saving
    • Description: Whether the tracker is in a power saving zone.

Device trackers

  • Tracker
    • Description: The current location of your pet, as reported by the tracker. The entity uses the name of the tracker device.
    • Remarks: When the location comes from a phone with the Tractive app nearby, the source type of the entity is Bluetooth instead of GPS.

Sensors

  • Activity time
    • Description: Time your pet has been active today.
  • Battery
    • Description: Battery level of the tracker.
  • Daily goal
    • Description: Daily activity goal set for your pet in the Tractive app.
  • Day sleep
    • Description: Time your pet has slept during the day.
  • Night sleep
    • Description: Time your pet has slept during the night.
  • Rest time
    • Description: Time your pet has been resting today.
  • Status
    • Description: Current status of the tracker.
    • Options: Inaccurate position, Not reporting, Operational, System shutdown user, System startup

Switches

  • Buzzer
    • Description: Turns the buzzer of the tracker on or off, for example to help you find your pet.
  • LED
    • Description: Turns the LED light of the tracker on or off.
  • Live tracking
    • Description: Turns live tracking on or off. With live tracking on, the tracker reports its location more often.

Note

The switches are unavailable while the tracker is in a power saving zone.

Data updates

The Tractive integration receives push updates from the Tractive API. When the integration starts, it fetches the current state of your trackers and pets once. After that, the Tractive API sends state changes, such as a new location, battery level, or activity data, to Home Assistant as they happen, so the entities update in near real time without pollingData 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].

Known limitations

  • The integration requires a Tractive Premium subscription.
  • Your Tractive account must allow signing in with an email address and password. Accounts that can only sign in with a Google or Apple account are not supported.
  • Trackers (pets) that are shared from another account to your account are not visible in Home Assistant. You need to set up each Tractive account that owns a tracker (pet) as a separate integration entry.

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
  2. Next to the entry you want to remove, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.
    • Depending on the integration, the entries are listed under one of the following headings:
      • Devices
      • Hubs
      • Services
      • Integration entries
  3. To confirm, select Delete.
    • Home Assistant also deletes the devices and entities of the entry.
  4. If Home Assistant asks you to restart, restart Home Assistant.
  5. If Home Assistant asks whether to also delete the application credentials, select Remove or Keep.