track_new_devices: false not honored

[boojew]

Home Assistant release with the issue:

0.71.0 (rc)

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):
Unknown

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):

Docker

Component/platform:

Unifi WAP https://www.home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker.unifi/

Description of problem:
The "track_new_devices: false" is not being honoured. I have tried with the following two variations

  - platform: unifi
    host: skywarp
    username: !secret unifilogin
    password: !secret unifipassword
    verify_ssl: false
    track_new_devices: false

  - platform: unifi
    host: skywarp
    username: !secret unifilogin
    password: !secret unifipassword
    verify_ssl: false
    new_device_defaults:
      track_new_devices: false

And in both cases new devices are added to my known_devices file and being tracked. Seems to be a similar issue to #11184

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant):

Traceback (if applicable):

Additional information:

[point-4ward]

Please show your whole device tracker section with formatting.

Items will still be added to known devices in any case.

[boojew]

Got it - and thats what I assumed, but I wanted to be sure. They are always added, and "track: true" is always added - no matter what my config.

This is my complete device_tracker config

device_tracker:
  - platform: automatic
    client_id: !secret automatic_client
    secret: !secret automatic_secret
  - platform: unifi
    host: skywarp
    username: !secret unifilogin
    password: !secret unifipassword
    verify_ssl: false
    new_device_defaults:
      track_new_devices: false

[dshokouhi]

@boojew if you look at the device_tracker docs you will see that the values are read from the first configured device tracker which in this case is automatic try to change the positioning of the 2 platforms to see if that helps. The devices will still show up in known_devices.yaml but it should be set to track: false

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker/

[point-4ward]

^ what he said.

[boojew]

Yes, that solved it. I misunderstood what "However device tracker will only look for global settings under the configuration of the first configured platform" meant. In hindsight, it is clear... but this is not intuitive, but I assume there is a good reason for this

[forkineye]

For sanities sake, how are we to know this is a global setting since it's nested under the platform? Or am I missing something obvious?

[point-4ward]

... By reading the docs.

But you're right, it's not very intuitive.

[forkineye]

I looked at the docs, but nowhere does it state this is a global setting. Or are we to assume it's global since it's listed in https://www.home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker/ and not https://www.home-assistant.io/components/device_tracker.unifi/? My assumption was that it would be an inherited setting and local to the platform. Just trying to wrap my head around it to avoid future confusion.

[point-4ward]

On the first page you linked to, under the heading "Configuring a device_tracker platform"...

The following optional parameters can be used with any platform. However device tracker will only look for global settings under the configuration of the first configured platform:

[forkineye]

Again though, it states those are optional parameters. Doesn't say anything about which ones are global. Are they all global?

[point-4ward]

Just the ones that follow that paragraph, that's why it says the following parameters.