When I have a space in the $fing_name it will divide it to another array iterance and search for
ip=$fing_name
How to avoid that?
Like all my Raspberry Pi your scrip will search for (“empty” MAC and “Pi” for its I.P,) 
This result of an Grep error and finally not known device then a annoying notifications.
I need to include or remove spaces from Fing output csv with an grep REGEX
“Raspberry Pi” have a space in it and cause a new loop for constructing a array of:
empty MAC / and “Pi” for the I.P. grep comparison…
so an empty mac make grep to not correctly work and trigger not found in known and ignored tx file so MQTT alert!!!
Neep to remove space on the Fing output to csv… with awk or something like it…
Sorry, I’m new to linux txt and regex manipulations I do not quite get it
Edit:
Oups! got it !
I’ve forgot the
IFS="
"
before the loop!
Where shoud i run those commands if i use HASS in Virtualbox?
You can run this script wherever you want. Only what you need is connectivity towards MQTT server. In my case, I have one Raspberry PI which is used for lot of stuff and on that I also run this script.
In your case, I’m not sure if you can access OS in HASS installation (I’m using docker installation). If you can than, for sure, you can run this in HASS virtual machine. But if you ask me, better solution will be to run it outside of virtual machine so that you dont need to touckle with network settings. This script has to have access to your home network, to be able to scan it and in virtual machine you have to be careful that you scan your home network and not your network inside virtual machine.
not quite understanding this. are you saying that I can or i can’t use API with my Fingbox?
I really hope I am able to since i paid good money for this device and you seem to keep pulling features from and putting into ‘premium’ which I don’t see why i should pay a monthly fee for something I bought and is used solely on my own network.
Welcome to the disgusted club - yes if you want access to the API you have to pay their monthly subscription.
So after paying them for the hardware, they now want you to pay them again on a monthly basis to access the API which is telling you about your own data that they are harvesting and monetising…
Many others are rather annoyed about all this, as can be seen on their forum in the thread you also posted into there. But of course as Fing got taken over a while back by venture capital, this is now all about the $ rather than the users like it used to be.
absolute shame. I mean i could technically do most of what i use fing for myself using various linux tools. But just out of laziness and convenience i chose to buy a fingbox. Been waiting for so long for the API stuff so I could use the presence detection stuff within Home Assistant. Just wish it wasn’t so long ago i bought it else it would be on its way back to amazon.
NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE.
(I mean, i get it… i understand things when there is hosted services. SaaS etc. that a monthly/yearly subscription makes sense… just when its a product that is locally hosted on your network with no need for external hosted services… ?! even if it was a one off price, to unlock that functionality, if wouldn’t mind so much.
Corporate greeeeeeeed.