From 33f9c0679bdcc051da280128a8bd45abacefaf3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlo Costanzo Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 21:14:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added note on track_new_devices Also updated csv to yaml. --- source/components/device_tracker.markdown | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/components/device_tracker.markdown b/source/components/device_tracker.markdown index 1422ad4a107..3dbae4228b5 100644 --- a/source/components/device_tracker.markdown +++ b/source/components/device_tracker.markdown @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ device_tracker: host: 192.168.1.1 username: admin password: YOUR_PASSWORD + track_new_devices: yes ``` -Once tracking, the `device_tracker` component will maintain a file in your config dir called `known_devices.csv`. Edit this file to adjust which devices have to be tracked. Here you can also setup a url for each device to be used as the entity picture. +By default, the device tracker will add all found devices into the `known_devices.yaml`. It will default to displaying them in the UI as well. To disable displaying new devices in the UI, change the value of `track_new_devices:` to `no`. + + +Once tracking, the `device_tracker` component will maintain a file in your config dir called `known_devices.yaml`. Edit this file to adjust which devices have to be tracked. Here you can also setup a url for each device to be used as the entity picture and set whether the device will be show in the UI when in away state..