Depending on your set up, location data is sent directly from your phone to your Home Assistant instances or via the Home Assistant Cloud Service. This will depend on the URLs specified in the Connection section of the App Configuration menu. Location data is not sent via any other servers or organisations. Of course, if you decide not grant the Home Assistant Companion App location permission or if you subsequently remove the location permissions (
Settings>Privacy>Location Services or
Settings>Privacy>Permissions), no location data will be sent from your device to Home Assistant. It is important to note that none of the [color=var(--ifm-link-color)]
sensors will work if location is disabled. An alternative is to disable the device_tracker.<device_name> entity from the [color=var(--ifm-link-color)]
entity registry.
Once you have installed and opened the Home Assistant Companion App for the first time, a new device_tracker. entity will be created. By default the entity will have a name of the form device_tracker.<device_ID> where <device_ID> is the device name you have set (
Settings>General>About or
Settings>About Phone). You can check the entity name within Home Assistant by visiting the Integration section of the Configuration page from the sidebar (swipe right if you're using the
Companion App) then clicking or tapping on the Mobile App integration for your device and scrolling through the list of entities. You can edit the entity's name attribute as you desire if needed.