MQTT-Room

With the move away from legacy device trackers, it seems like my mqtt-room sensors might be deprecated.

I use ESPresense to track ble signals of my family’s iPhones. Currently I have automations that trigger on the state changes to identify if a device is close to a room’s esp32, and I use device tracker see with a trigger setup on a delay to figure out if that device is approaching or moving away from an esp32.

This has been working great

Garage doors open, lights turn off, etc

Does anyone know if the mqtt-room presence integration is on its way out?

Is there any ‘modern’ way that I can use to get current and previous states of a sensor like mqtt-room

Thank you