Connecting to unifi AC-AP Lite won't work

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ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker] Error setting up platform unifi

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py”, line 141, in _new_conn
(self.host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/connection.py”, line 83, in create_connection
raise err
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/connection.py”, line 73, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 600, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 345, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 844, in _validate_conn
conn.connect()
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py”, line 284, in connect
conn = self._new_conn()
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connection.py”, line 150, in _new_conn
self, “Failed to establish a new connection: %s” % e)
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x6cc76270>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 423, in send
timeout=timeout
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py”, line 649, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/util/retry.py”, line 376, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘192.168.2.252’, port=8443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/login (Caused by NewConnectionError(’<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x6cc76270>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’,))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/init.py”, line 152, in async_setup_platform
None, platform.get_scanner, hass, {DOMAIN: p_config})
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py”, line 388, in iter
yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/tasks.py”, line 286, in _wakeup
value = future.result()
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/futures.py”, line 277, in result
raise self._exception
File “/usr/lib/python3.4/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 54, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/unifi.py”, line 53, in get_scanner
site_id=site_id, ssl_verify=verify_ssl)
File “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/deps/pyunifi/controller.py”, line 65, in init
self._login(version)
File “/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/deps/pyunifi/controller.py”, line 123, in _login
r = self.session.post(login_url, params)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 535, in post
return self.request(‘POST’, url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 488, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”, line 609, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File “/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/requests/adapters.py”, line 487, in send
raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘192.168.2.252’, port=8443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/login (Caused by NewConnectionError(’<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x6cc76270>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’,))

So I have HA 0.43; controller Unifi 5.4.1 and most recent version of AC-AP(as of april 2017). Checked all the settings, but still no luck. Is there a bug in my setup? Like in Python or connection from HA to Unifi?

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Can you share the configuration you have for your device_tracker?

The logs seem to indicate that HA cannot reach your controller (assuming 192.168.2.252 is your UniFi controller and is running).
The host of device_tracker must point towards your UniFi controller and not the accesspoint itself. Could this be the case?

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  - platform: unifi
host: 192.168.2.252
username: !secret unifi_username
password: !secret unifi_passw
verify_ssl: false

The controller is on my laptop which is not 24/7 on. That would be odd…

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Is 192.168.2.252 the IP of your AP or your controller? Because it needs to be the latter.

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Sorry, you were right! Now all devices appears.
So can you point me to the direction, where and how to install the controller software?

Can it be on a Pi like in Docker? Do you know how?

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https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/unifi/

docker pull linuxserver/unifi

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Thank you!
Will work on it the coming days. First need to wait for the new Pi to arrive. And then I need to dive in the docker software.

Learned my lesson :wink:

So for others: not the IP address of the actual device should be in the config.yaml file but the IP address of where the CONTROLLER software runs.