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title, description, logo, ha_category, ha_release, ha_iot_class

title	description	logo	ha_category	ha_release	ha_iot_class
FortiGate	Instructions on how to integrate FortiGate Firewalls into Home Assistant.	fortinet.jpg	Presence Detection	0.97	Local Polling

This is a FortiGate presence sensor based on device detection of the FortiGate API

FortiGate set up

Configure the FortiGate with a USERNAME API user and assign its minimum rights profile:

config system accprofile
    edit "homeassistant_profile"
        set authgrp read
    next
end

config system api-user
    edit "USERNAME"
        set api-key API_KEY
        set accprofile "homeassistant_profile"
        set vdom "root"
        config trusthost
            edit 1
                set ipv4-trusthost <trusted subnets>
            next
        end
    next
end

Configuration

Add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
fortigate:
  host: HOST_IP
  username: YOUR_USERNAME
  api_key: YOUR_API_KEY

{% configuration %} host: description: The IP address of the FortiGate device. required: true type: string username: description: The username of the user that will connect to the FortiGate device. required: true type: string api_key: description: The API key associated with the user. required: true type: string devices: description: The MAC addresses of the devices to monitor. required: false type: string {% endconfiguration %}

Errors

If the rights of the profile are not sufficient, you will get the following error:

ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved