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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/Comfortable_Tea_6730 on 2023-07-04 21:05:44+00:00.

Hi all, I’m pretty new to Home Assistant and am trying to learn about all the services and automations you can achieve.

I’m trying to make an automation for when me or my partner enter or leave our work zones which I have set in the zones panel. If one of us enter our work zones, it should send a notification to the other person’s phone to let them know they got to work safe.

Things I need to understand is:

1. Can home assistant track our phones device tracker entities when we are not connected to the home assistant network?

If not, I have a free trial for Nabu Casa but am not sure if that polls the devices location or if I have to explicitly remotely connect in order to send home assistant my location.

1. I have seen you can get round the device tracker by using an integration like OwnTracks. If that was to work, can I then send notifications to our phones as that again would need connection to home assistant to receive them.

Thanks!