Ubiquiti Unifi WAP


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: YOUR_ADMIN_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Configuration variables:

  • host (Optional): The hostname or IP address of your controller. Defaults to localhost.
  • port (Optional): The port of your controller’s web interface. Defaults to 8443.
  • username (Required: The username of an user with administrative privileges, usually admin.
  • password (Required): The password for your given admin account.
  • site_id (Optional): Allows you to specify a site_id for device tracking. Defaults to default. Found in the URL of the controller (i.e. https://CONTROLLER:PORT/manage/site/SITE_ID/dashboard).
  • verify_ssl (Optional): Controls if the SSL certificate running on your Unifi webserver must be trusted by a known Certificate Authority on the server running Home Assistant. Defaults to ‘True’ but can also be a value that points to your custom cert “path/to/custom_cert.pem”.

See the device tracker component page for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.