Tractive is an Austrian company that makes GPS trackers for dogs and cats. The trackers are managed through the Tractive app, which shows location, activity and sleep, and sets virtual fences.
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Tractive trackers report over a cellular connection to Tractive's own cloud, with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi also used, and the app is the main way to use them. A hub is not involved. The integrations found, Homey and Home Assistant, both read the pet's data from that cloud rather than from the tracker directly.
That suits pet owners who want location-based automations, such as lights or a speaker alert when a pet leaves a zone. It is weaker for voice control: Tractive says it has no official Alexa, Google or Siri integration. The Home Assistant integration is community maintained and needs a Tractive Premium subscription.
Source: Tractive App Store listing
The single official app. It shows a pet's location with LIVE mode, activity and sleep, Wellness Score, Health Alerts, virtual fences, Radar, walk recording, location history and sharing with family or sitters. The app is free and the tracker is sold separately. Published by tractive GmbH, and the listing covers iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Apple Vision. Tractive also offers a web interface. The Android link uses the package name seen in app analytics pages, and we could not load the Google Play page itself to confirm it.
Official supported by the brand Community built by someone else Not found searched, nothing found Unconfirmed sources conflict or could not be opened
| Platform | Status | What it means | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connection | |||
| Cellular, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi | Yes | The trackers use cellular (LTE-M), Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to report location, according to Wikipedia. The App Store listing says they work in more than 175 countries. Home Assistant's integration can show Bluetooth as the location source when a nearby phone with the Tractive app provides it. | Wikipedia: Tractive Tractive App Store listing Home Assistant: Tractive |
| Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread | Not found | No mention of these on the Tractive pages we opened. Tractive trackers report to the cloud rather than joining a home network. | Searched, no source |
| Matter | Not found | No Tractive announcement or product found when we searched. | Searched, no source |
| Voice assistants and ecosystems | |||
| Amazon Alexa | Not found | Tractive's own blog says there is no official integration with Alexa, Google or Siri. A community post on the openHAB forum describes answering location questions through Alexa after pushing tracker data into openHAB, which is a user workaround. | Tractive blog openHAB community thread |
| Google Home | Not found | Same statement from Tractive: no official Google integration. The only route its blog describes is indirect, a Homey Flow triggered by a voice command, which it says is not an official feature. | Tractive blog |
| Apple Home | Not found | Tractive's blog lists no HomeKit support and says there is no official Siri integration. The Tractive app itself is available on iPhone, Apple Watch and other Apple devices. | Tractive blog Tractive App Store listing |
| Samsung SmartThings | Unconfirmed | Not mentioned on Tractive's blog or app listing. We did not search for a SmartThings integration specifically. | Searched, no source |
| Open platforms and developer access | |||
| Home Assistant | Yes | A built-in Tractive integration maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Tractive, whose own blog says it does not officially support it. It uses cloud push, signs in with Tractive email and password (Google or Apple sign-in only is not supported), and needs a Tractive Premium subscription. Each pet gets a tracker device and a pet device with location, battery, activity and sleep sensors, and buzzer, LED and live tracking switches. Trackers shared from another account are not visible. | Home Assistant: Tractive Tractive blog |
| Homey | Official | Tractive and Homey announced an official partnership on 30 April 2025, and the Tractive app for Homey is published by Webed Solutions, marked Official in the Homey store. It lists Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Homey Self-Hosted Server, and says a Homey Bridge is required for the GPS tracker device. Flow cards cover location, battery, charging, sound and light, LIVE tracking and zone events, plus actions to switch the sound, light and LIVE tracking. | Homey Tractive app Tractive press release Tractive blog |
| openHAB | Community | No official binding found. A forum thread describes users running the community Python library aiotractive in scripts and sending the data to openHAB over MQTT or the REST API. | openHAB community thread |
| Node-RED | Unconfirmed | Not searched for specifically, so we could not confirm a node. | Searched, no source |
| Hubitat | Unconfirmed | Not searched for specifically, so we could not confirm a driver. | Searched, no source |
| Domoticz | Unconfirmed | Not searched for specifically, so we could not confirm a plugin. | Searched, no source |
| Control4 | Unconfirmed | Not searched for specifically, so we could not confirm a driver. | Searched, no source |
| Philips Hue | Not found | No direct integration found. Homey Flows could link tracker events to Hue lights, according to the examples in Tractive's press release. | Tractive press release |
| ioBroker | Community | A community adapter for ioBroker logs in with a Tractive account, polls the pets' location and battery, and needs a paid Tractive subscription. Its README says it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tractive, and the last changelog entry is from February 2023. | ioBroker.tractive-gps |
| IFTTT | Unconfirmed | A search for a Tractive IFTTT service returned no Tractive page, and Tractive's blog does not mention IFTTT. We could not confirm either way. | Searched, no source |
| Tractive developer API | Unconfirmed | We found no official public API or developer program. Home Assistant says its integration receives updates from the Tractive API, and community projects use it with a Tractive account login, but we could not confirm whether Tractive documents or permits third-party access. | Home Assistant: Tractive ioBroker.tractive-gps |
Checked 11 November 2026 against the brand's own pages, app store listings and each project's own page. “Not found” means we searched and found nothing, not that it is impossible. Compatibility changes often. Spot an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Not that we could find. No Tractive announcement or product found when we searched.
Not that we could find. Tractive's own blog says there is no official integration with Alexa, Google or Siri. A community post on the openHAB forum describes answering location questions through Alexa after pushing tracker data into openHAB, which is a user workaround.
Not that we could find. Same statement from Tractive: no official Google integration. The only route its blog describes is indirect, a Homey Flow triggered by a voice command, which it says is not an official feature.
Not that we could find. Tractive's blog lists no HomeKit support and says there is no official Siri integration. The Tractive app itself is available on iPhone, Apple Watch and other Apple devices.
Yes. A built-in Tractive integration maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Tractive, whose own blog says it does not officially support it. It uses cloud push, signs in with Tractive email and password (Google or Apple sign-in only is not supported), and needs a Tractive Premium subscription. Each pet gets a tracker device and a pet device with location, battery, activity and sleep sensors, and buzzer, LED and live tracking switches. Trackers shared from another account are not visible.
Unconfirmed. Not mentioned on Tractive's blog or app listing. We did not search for a SmartThings integration specifically.
Yes, officially. Tractive and Homey announced an official partnership on 30 April 2025, and the Tractive app for Homey is published by Webed Solutions, marked Official in the Homey store. It lists Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Homey Self-Hosted Server, and says a Homey Bridge is required for the GPS tracker device. Flow cards cover location, battery, charging, sound and light, LIVE tracking and zone events, plus actions to switch the sound, light and LIVE tracking.
Unconfirmed. Not searched for specifically, so we could not confirm a driver.
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