AHC: Proximity ignores Distance

[tim-peters]

Even though I'm currently hundreds of km away from my home zone (defined in the proximity section), every time I move towards it, my heating turns on. Expected behavior would be that my movements are being ignored when I'm out of the defined "Proximity Distance".
I tried different values for the "Proximity Distance" without success (so this does not seem to be a unit issue).

I'm running v 5.0.9

Here is my trace log: https://controlc.com/5f228328

[panhans]

Hey,

could you paste this in your template editor and post the results here? This snippet filters all sensors of your proximity entity that is equal or less than 50 whatever ( ;) ) to your home.

{{ device_entities('ad0d9c5f424600fb53cfdc4a7501cd97')  
          | expand 
          | selectattr('attributes.device_class', 'eq', 'distance')
          | selectattr('state', '<=', 50 | string)
          | map(attribute='entity_id')
          | map('regex_replace','_(?=[^_]*$)(.*)', '')
          | list }}

[tim-peters]

Thank you for your quick response!

Here is the result:

['sensor.home_[redacted:my full name]', 'sensor.home_nachste']

Please note that I'm currently home (and not far away anymore).

[panhans]

Ok, could you check your history (graph) of all distance sensors of your proximity device when you were far away from home?

[tim-peters]

They were both correct (the graphs overlap as they are identical). The only difference is that the entities shown above are missing the '_entfernung' ending ('sensor.home_nachste' -> 'sensor.home_nachste_entfernung').

[Sonsi79]

Same error here. I was over 50km away, the distance in blueprint was set to 900m but it start to heat up...

[andreipoenaru]

The problem is that the two distances are compared as strings, and not as numbers: so while 50000 <= 900 is False, '50000' <= '900' is True (because '5' < '9' and the string comparison stops there).

[panhans]

Good point. Will check this an fix this soon.

//EDIT: I'd just pushed an update with the fix. Feel free to test and give some feedback

[tim-peters]

Works like a charm now. Thank you!