Device_Tracker with Fritz!Box

Configuration
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So, yes, install those.

This was no easy feat for my HASS version 0.77.3 on Debian jessie in a virtual environment on a Pi Zero W. I kept running into

“Compile failed: command ‘gcc’ failed with exit status 1” for multiple reasons, including running out of memory. The tricks were to make sure you’re installing the libraries in the virtual environment [rooky mistake, I know] and create a swap file to avoid the memory problem. Here’s the step by step of what worked for me, starting as pi user

sudo su
source /srv/homeassistant/bin/activate
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=524288
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo swapoff /swapfile

lxml takes forever to install, where “forever” = 40 minutes+ on my Pi Zero.

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I am using fritzbox component tracker for tracking with the following configuration. My problem is that the away mode is delayed for around 10 minutes. This is not always the case, since sometimes the away is correctly interpreted. Just for the sake of discussion I have a fritzbox 7490 modem and two 1750 fritz wifi repeaters. Any help.
device_tracker:
- platform: fritz
password: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
interval_seconds: 15
consider_home: 60
new_device_defaults:
track_new_devices: False
hide_if_away: False

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I have the same probleme, my Fritzbox 7590 take > 10 min. to change the state. At the moment is the box is not the best choice for presence detection.

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I think that Fritz keeps the devices in its table even if the devices are not connected . In order for fritz to remove the device from the table and set the device as disconnected it needs 10min.

The fritz component scans this table. So, if the device is there it thinks that the device is connected but this is not always the case.

This is what causing the issue.

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Hi, please, can you help me?
I would like to include a remote fritz tracker in my home assistant. I would like to make an entry like -host_dns - also so that every 3 days I delete the list of tracked devices
Thank’s in advance!!!

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Fritzbox caches the devices many hours (or days?) so the device_tracker with fritzbox is useless.

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The device_tracker for “platform: fritz” is not at all useless.
Fritz!Box remembers the devices but does not cache their states.
The states correctly switch from “home” to “not_home” and vice versa.

The configuration is extremely simple. As the network devices data is exposed anonymously by Fritz you do not even need to provide login credentials. Simply add these two lines to configuration.yaml and all devices in your LAN will be tracked automatically:

device_tracker:
  - platform: fritz
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Second thing: phone do no keep the wifi connection all the time. I have a “ping” device tracke and I see that my phone stops wifi many times a day.