diff --git a/source/_components/device_tracker.tomato.markdown b/source/_components/device_tracker.tomato.markdown
index e7a105ea2fe..3c5eca66caa 100644
--- a/source/_components/device_tracker.tomato.markdown
+++ b/source/_components/device_tracker.tomato.markdown
@@ -29,14 +29,47 @@ device_tracker:
     http_id: YOUR_HTTP_ID
 ```
 
-Configuration variables:
-
-- **host** (*Required*): The IP address of your router, e.g. 192.168.1.1.
-- **username** (*Required*: The username of an user with administrative privileges, usually *admin*.
-- **password** (*Required*): The password for your given admin account.
-- **http_id** (*Required*): The value can be obtained by logging in to the Tomato admin interface and search for `http_id` in the page source code.
+{% configuration %}
+host:
+  description: "The IP address or hostname of your router, e.g. `192.168.1.1` or `rt-ac68u`."
+  required: false
+  type: string
+port:
+  description: "The port number of your router, e.g. `443`."
+  required: false
+  type: int
+  default: 80/443 (automatically detected)
+ssl:
+  description: "Whether to connect via `https`."
+  required: false
+  type: bool
+  default: false
+verify_ssl:
+  description: "If SSL verification for https resources needs to be turned off (for self-signed certs, etc.) this can take on boolean values `False` or `True` or you can pass a location on the device where a certificate can be used for verification e.g. `/mnt/NAS/router_cert.pem`."
+  required: false
+  type: [string, bool]
+  default: true
+username:
+  description: "The username of an user with administrative privileges, usually *admin*."
+  required: true
+  type: string
+password:
+  description: "The password for your given admin account."
+  required: true
+  type: string
+http_id:
+  description: "The value can be obtained by logging in to the Tomato admin interface and search for `http_id` in the page source code."
+  required: true
+  type: string
+{% endconfiguration %}
 
 See the [device tracker component page](/components/device_tracker/) for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.
 
 A description of the API s available in this [Tomato API](http://paulusschoutsen.nl/blog/2013/10/tomato-api-documentation/) blog post.
-    
+
+SSL Certificate:
+
+Gathering the SSL Certificate of your router can be accomplished with this (or a similar) command:
+```bash
+openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 172.10.10.1:443 </dev/null 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -outform PEM > router_cert.pem
+```
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