Pets

Tractive

tractive

Built inCloud push

Tractive is an Austrian company that develops real-time location trackers for pets and other animals using GPS and GSM technology.

Documentation Source code

In Apple Home through HomeKit Bridge

What HomeKit Bridge makes of each kind of entity this integration creates, read from its source code. A device only gets the ones that apply to it.

Entity	Shows up as	Note
`switch`	Switch or outlet
`binary_sensor`	Sensor (motion, contact, leak, smoke…)
`device_tracker`	Presence (as an occupancy sensor)

What people report

Tractive GPS trackers work through the cloud and need a Premium subscription. Accounts with many pets hit rate limits and lose the device tracker.

Partly works1
Not working1
Won’t be supported1

Device	In Home Assistant	What they said	Source
Tractive GPS tracker	Partly works Cloud	Device tracker unavailable while other entities work; later started working Saved copy The problem Device tracker for pets is not working. Other entities from integration work, but device tracket is not available ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2024.2.4 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue tractive ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/tractive/ ### Diagnostics information Logger: homeassistant.components.device_tracker Source: … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #115350 · 2024-04
Tractive GPS tracker (many pets)	Not working Cloud	Device tracker missing with more than 4 pets; Too Many Requests errors Saved copy The problem Tractive integration does not provide device tracker for pets. Restart and update of version does not work. I have 5 pets in my account. 3 of them are own and 2 are shared from other tractive account. 2 Shared pets (device) are disabled in HA Tractive integration. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2026.1.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue Tractive ### Link to integration documentation on our website … Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.	Issue #162135 · 2026-02
Tractive shared trackers	Won’t be supported Cloud	Pets shared from another account are not visible Saved copy Limitations: The integration requires a Tractive Premium subscription. Your Tractive account must allow signing in with an email address and password. Accounts that can only sign in with a Google or Apple account are not supported. Trackers (pets) that are shared from another account to your account are not visible in Home Assistant. You need to set up each Tractive account that owns a tracker (pet) as a separate integration entry. Excerpt saved from home-assistant.io on 2026-10-23.	Docs

Gathered from GitHub issues, pull requests, discussions and docs, and from r/homeassistant. These are individual reports, so check the linked thread and the date before you buy.

How it connects

Cloud push

Goes through the maker’s cloud, which sends updates as they happen. Needs the internet and an account.

Details

Installs (analytics)	2,761 (0.39%)
Quality scale	Silver
Added in	Home Assistant 2021.9
Set up in the UI	Yes
Maintainers	@Danielhiversen, @zhulik, @bieniu

Limitations from the docs

The integration requires a Tractive Premium subscription.
Your Tractive account must allow signing in with an email address and password. Accounts that can only sign in with a Google or Apple account are not supported.
Trackers (pets) that are shared from another account to your account are not visible in Home Assistant. You need to set up each Tractive account that owns a tracker (pet) as a separate integration entry.

In ReReHome

Whatever HomeKit Bridge shares reaches Apple Home as normal HomeKit accessories behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls them like any other.

Bridges get their own settings page listing the accessories behind them.