--- title: "HA Xplora® Watch" description: "HA Xplora® Watch is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 195 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated October 26, 2026." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/distante-ha-xplora-watch" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/distante-ha-xplora-watch.md" last-updated: "2026-10-23" version: "1.4" --- # HA Xplora® Watch > HA Xplora® Watch is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 195 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated October 26, 2026. HA Xplora® Watch connects Xplora children's GPS watches to Home Assistant through the vendor's cloud. It adds watch location and location history, battery, charging and online state, steps, and safe-zone sensors, plus chat with the watch, including voice, photo and video attachments. Alarms and silent times can be managed from Home Assistant, and a button refreshes them. Guardian accounts can also reboot or shut down the watch remotely. Polling is off by default and the login session is reused for about 35 days, which limits requests to Xplora's servers and the risk of rate-limit bans. Optional events cover SOS alerts, calls, power changes and low battery, and a bundled dashboard card shows the watch status; setup is done in the UI. Automatic summary of the README and code of distante/ha-xplora-watch. Something wrong, or are you the maintainer and want your own text here? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/hacs_repository/?owner=distante&repository=ha-xplora-watch&category=integration) On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=distante&repository=ha-xplora-watch&category=integration) ## Supports - **Uses the vendor's cloud**: Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor. - **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS. - **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months. ## Setting it up Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services. ### Set up HA Xplora® Watch - **E-mail address** - **Language** - **Password** - **Timezone** - **Watch Language (en)** ### Set up HA Xplora® Watch - **Countrycode (+49)** - **Language** - **Password** - **phonenumber without Countrycode** - **Timezone** - **Watch Language (en)** ### Account alias - **Account alias**: Appended to this watch's device name (e.g. “Dana Watch (Mom)”) and entity ids so two accounts that link the same watch stay distinguishable. Pre-filled with your Xplora account name — change it to anything you like (“Dad”, “Mom”, “Brother Tom”). ### After setup - **Automatically fetch yesterday's location history**: When on, the integration fetches the previous day's location track at 01:00 local time — only if that day's data is not already cached. Useful if you want a growing location archive without setting up your own automation calling xplora\_watch.fetch\_history daily. - **Mark chat messages as read while polling** - **Location history retention (days)**: How long the optional location-history sensor keeps past positions. Home Assistant retains far more than the Xplora® app's ~3-day window. Only matters once you enable the location-history sensor. - **Home is Safezone** - **Home latitude** - **Home longitude** - **Home radius** - **Language** - **Maps** - **Number of Messages** - **OpenCage API KEY** - **SOS alert events**: Fire a Home Assistant event, and write a logbook line, when the watch sends an SOS. On by default. Only fires while polling is on. The logbook line records the SOS location (latitude/longitude) into the Home Assistant recorder database — a deliberate trade for visibility, not a privacy guarantee. - **Call activity events**: Fire a Home Assistant event, and write a logbook line, for each call (incoming, outgoing, missed). Off by default. Only fires while polling is on. The logbook line records the contact's phone number and name into the Home Assistant recorder database — a deliberate trade for visibility, not a privacy guarantee. Leave off if you do not want contact numbers stored in your database. - **Power on/off events**: Fire a Home Assistant event, and write a logbook line, when the watch powers on or off. Off by default. Only fires while polling is on. - **Low-battery events**: Fire a Home Assistant event, and write a logbook line, when the watch reports low battery. Off by default. Only fires while polling is on. Texts from the code of [distante/ha-xplora-watch](https://github.com/distante/ha-xplora-watch). ## Entities - **Buttons**: Refresh Alarms & Silent Times - **Sensors**: Current safe zone ## From the README > A Home Assistant integration for Xplora® children's GPS watches — location, chat, alarms, safe zones and more, built to keep your Xplora account safe from rate-limit bans. > > More cards — chat, per-watch map, alarms & silent times — are covered in > > - Track your watch's live location and its location history > - Chat with the watch and receive its messages, including voice/photo/video attachments > - Manage alarms and silent times from the UI, no phone needed > - Safe-zone arrival/departure sensors > - Battery, charging, online state, steps, XCoins > - Reboot / shut down the watch remotely (Guardian accounts) > - A full services API for automations, plus dependency-free dashboard cards for everything above > - No real watch yet? Explore it risk-free in demo mode From the README of [distante/ha-xplora-watch](https://github.com/distante/ha-xplora-watch#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened. ## At a glance - Kind: Marketplace integration - Category: [Presence and location](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/presence-and-location.md) - Number: 195 installs sharing analytics; 9 GitHub stars - Connection: Needs the vendor's cloud - Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months - Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older) - Latest version: v1.6.0, last updated October 26, 2026 - Domain: `xplora_watch` - Source: - Issues: - Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/a72a8a02514b5399.webp (from distante/ha-xplora-watch's README) - Screenshot: https://vulpo.app/integrations-img/33eadef9e5803e95.webp (from distante/ha-xplora-watch's README) In Vulpo: Button card, Chart card, Apple Watch Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. 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