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Mikrotik Instructions on how to integrate MikroTik/RouterOS based devices into Home Assistant.
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Presence detection
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The mikrotik platform offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a MikroTik RouterOS based router.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

  • Presence detection

Prerequisites

You have to enable accessing the RouterOS API on your router to use this platform.

RouterOS uses a ping test to determine client presence, make sure you are not blocking this on the client (Windows firewall default behavior), as this will result in the provided device_tracker having the state not_home.

Terminal:

/ip service
set api disabled=no port=8728

Web Frontend:

Go to IP -> Services -> API and enable it.

Make sure that port 8728 or the port you choose is accessible from your network.

{% include integrations/config_flow.md %}

Use a certificate

To use SSL to connect to the API (via api-ssl instead of api service) further configuration is required at RouterOS side. You have to upload or generate a certificate and configure api-ssl service to use it. Here is an example of a self-signed certificate:

/certificate add common-name="Self signed demo certificate for API" days-valid=3650 name="Self signed demo certificate for API" key-usage=digital-signature,key-encipherment,tls-server,key-cert-sign,crl-sign
/certificate sign "Self signed demo certificate for API"
/ip service set api-ssl certificate="Self signed demo certificate for API"
/ip service enable api-ssl

If everything is working fine you can disable the pure api service in RouterOS:

/ip service disable api

The user privileges in RouterOS

To use this device tracker, you only need limited privileges. To enhance the security of your MikroTik device, create a "read only" user who can connect to API and perform ping test only:

/user group add name=homeassistant policy=read,api,test,!local,!telnet,!ssh,!ftp,!reboot,!write,!policy,!winbox,!password,!web,!sniff,!sensitive,!romon,!dude,!tikapp
/user add group=homeassistant name=homeassistant
/user set password="YOUR_PASSWORD" homeassistant