Home Assistant BikeTrax

Custom component for the PowUnity BikeTrax integration for Home Assistant.

Introduction

This custom components adds support for the PowUnity BikeTrax GPS tracker.

Features

• Multi-device support
• Live updates
• Ability to control alarm, tracking and stolen-state.

Installation

HACS

This is the preferred method of installation.

• Search for this integration and install it.
• Restart Home Assistant.

Manual

• Download the contents of this repository.
• Copy the custom_components folder to your configuration folder. If you already have one, then merge its contents.
• Restart Home Assistant.

Configuration

Add a new integration using the web interface, and follow the configuration steps.

You can also click the button below to get started.

Debug logging

Additional logging can be enabled from the Home Assistant integrations page. Simply enable debug logging to see additional logging of this integration.

If you ever need to share your logs, be sure to remove sensitive data such as email addresses, identifiers and serial numbers.

Known issues

Read-only mode

When read-only mode is enabled, the switches and alarm do not reflect this mode properly. For example, if you try to toggle device tracking, it will eventually restore to its previous state.

I do not really know how to handle this properly, without changing the entity type.

Alarm control panel

The current alarm control panel component in Home Assistant does not reflect the supported features properly. In addition, 'arm home' and 'arm away' have an odd meaning for a device alarm. Because of this 'bug', both modes for arming the alarm are implemented.

See nielsfaber/alarmo#384 for more information.

Stolen mode

When this integration was first introduced, there was a toggle in the PowUnity app to mark your bike as stolen. In the background, this toggled an attribute.

This functionality seems to be removed from the PowUnity app, or but behind a an additional subscription. However, the entity is still provided by this integration, because it is unknonw if it is a removed feature, or only available with an additional subscription.

References

This custom component builds on top of aiobiketrax.

Development version

If you ever need to use a newer version of aiobiketrax with this integration, you can edit custom_components/biketrax/manifest.json and adapt the requirements section to point to a newer version:

"requirements": [
  "aiobiketrax @ git+https://github.com/basilfx/aiobiketrax.git@master"
]

Shut-down Home Assistant, remove the old dependency and then restart Home Assistant. The latest version will be fetched from GitHub directly.

Removing a dependency depends on your installation. In a supervised installation, you can try the following:

docker exec -it homeassistant bash
pip uninstall aiobiketrax

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

See the LICENSE.md file (MIT license).

Disclaimer

Use this library at your own risk. I cannot be held responsible for any damages.

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