Blocking clients Unifi Integration

[Mr_Flibble]

I use a timer for our internet blocking, and a switch. It looks like this:

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?

I have a post about how I did the basic switch here:

Ubiquiti Network Integration - blocking switch for hosts? Did the method change?

A long time ago, I created some switches for our kids’s ipad and desktop systems in Home Assistant. These switches connect to the Ubiquiti Network Integration and allow us to have switches that immediately disable internet connectivity. I created this block about 3 years ago. I don’t remember what I did - but I did not create any objects in YAML - and I have done a grep through all my HA configs, and cannot find a trace of the MAC addresses, or switch objects that I can find in the GUI - but …

I have an automation that always turns this off at specific hours of the day, and you can manually turn it back on.

The timer I use is Simple Timer:

Details on Simple Timer are here:

Custom Integration: Simple Timer (+Card)

I am having an issue with simple timer. It works to control a device as expected, however, if I turn on the device directly (not using simple timer) it starts the timer for that device. Any idea why? I want to retain the option of turning on a device without using the timer.

Hopefully this helps somewhat.