--- layout: page title: "FRITZ!Box" description: "Instructions on how to integrate AVM FRITZ!Box based routers into Home Assistant." date: 2015-12-13 19:00 sidebar: true comments: false sharing: true footer: true logo: avm.png ha_category: Presence Detection ha_release: "0.10" --- The `fritz` platform offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a [AVM Fritz!Box](http://avm.de/produkte/fritzbox/) based router. ## {% linkable_title Setup %}

It might be necessary to install additional packages: $ sudo apt-get install python3-lxml If you installed Home Assistant in a virtualenv, run the following commands inside it: $ sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev; pip3 install lxml; be patient this will take a while.

## {% linkable_title Configuration %} To use an Fritz!Box router in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ```yaml # Example configuration.yaml entry device_tracker: - platform: fritz ``` {% configuration %} host: description: The IP address of your router, e.g., `192.168.1.1`. It is optional since every fritzbox is also reachable by using the IP address 169.254.1.1. required: false type: string username: description: The username of an user with administrative privileges, usually `admin`. required: false type: string password: description: The password for your given admin account. required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}

It seems that it is not necessary to use it in current generation Fritz!Box routers because the necessary data can be retrieved anonymously.

See the [device tracker component page](/components/device_tracker/) for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.