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page	Fortigate	Instructions on how to integrate Fortigate Firewalls into Home Assistant.	2019-07-07 22:00	true	false	true	true	fortinet.jpg	Presence Detection	0.96	Local Polling

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

Fortigate setup

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: YPUR_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