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title: "Proximity"
description: "Proximity is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 22.5k installs sharing analytics and works locally."
canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/proximity"
url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/proximity.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
---

# Proximity

> Proximity is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 22.5k installs sharing analytics and works locally.

Proximity is a built-in Home Assistant integration that tracks how far devices or persons are from a chosen zone. It adds sensors for distance and direction of travel, plus sensors for the nearest tracked device, its distance and its direction of travel. Settings let the user pick which devices or persons to track, which zone to measure distance to, which zones to ignore, and a tolerance distance. The same settings can be changed later in the options. It works locally and is set up in the UI. A repair notice appears in Settings if a tracked entity has been removed, and a diagnostics file can be downloaded for bug reports.

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[Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=proximity)

## Supports

- **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
- **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
- **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

## Setting it up

It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration.

### Connect

- **Zones to ignore**
- **Tolerance distance**
- **Devices or persons to track**
- **Zone to track distance to**

### After setup

- **Zones to ignore**
- **Tolerance distance**
- **Devices or persons to track**
- **Zone to track distance to**

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Entities

- **Sensors**: Direction of travel, Distance, Nearest device, Nearest direction of travel, Nearest distance

## Troubleshooting

- **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report.
- **Repair notices**: Notices it can show in Settings, Repairs:
  Tracked entity has been removed

## At a glance

- Kind: Built-in integration
- Category: [Presence and location](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/presence-and-location.md), Trackers
- Number: 22.5k installs sharing analytics
- Connection: Works locally
- Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant
- Needs: Built into Home Assistant
- Domain: `proximity`
- Source: <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/proximity/>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/proximity

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