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This platform allows you to detect presence by looking at devices connected to a Ubiquiti Unifi controller.
To use this device tracker in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
device_tracker:
- platform: unifi
username: USERNAME
password: PASSWORD
{% configuration %}
username:
description: A user on the controller
type: string
required: true
password:
description: The password for the account
type: string
required: true
host:
description: The hostname or IP address of your controller
default: localhost
type: string
required: false
port:
description: The port of your controller's web interface
default: 8443
type: int
required: false
site_id:
description: For multisite installations, you can specify site_id to specify which is used
type: string
required: false
default: default
verify_ssl:
description: Whether to do strict validation on SSL certificates of the Unifi controller. This can be true/false or the path to a locally trusted certificate to use for verification (i.e. "/path/to/custom_cert.pm")
type: boolean or filename
required: false
default: true
detection_time:
description: How long since the last seen time before the device is marked away, specified in seconds.
type: int
required: optional
default: 300
{% endconfiguration %}
See the device tracker component page for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.
{% linkable_title Configuring Users %}
The Unifi controller allows you to create multiple users on it besides the main administrator. It is recommended that you create a limited user that has read-only permissions for the Unifi device tracker.
{% linkable_title Conflicts with MQTT %}
The Unifi controller can either be a dedicated hardware device (Unifi's cloud key), or as software any Linux system. If you run the the Unifi controller on the same operating system as Home Assistant there may be conflicts in ports if you have the MQTT component as well.
It is recommended that you run the Unifi controller in a dedicate virtual machine to avoid that situation.
{% linkable_title Troubleshooting and Time Synchronization %}
Presence detection depends on accurate time configuration between Home Assistant and the Unifi controller.
If Home Assistant and the Unifi controller are running on separate machines or VMs ensure that all clocks are syncronized. Failing to have syncronized clocks will lead to Home Assistant failing to mark a device as home.