Integration of Unifi Controller

Robban · July 10, 2019, 1:50pm

These are related to the device tracker configuration, what logs do you get from the config entry?

svenschuldt · July 10, 2019, 2:03pm

I was reading through the thread - I understand it worked for you while having an entry in the configuration.yaml and then going via the interface, right?
Well, I have an entry as well as going through the interface, but the interface already denies any connection …

svenschuldt · July 10, 2019, 2:13pm

you might be referring to this?

2019-07-10 15:20:06 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setting up unifi
2019-07-10 15:20:06 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup of domain unifi took 0.0 seconds.

I was happy when I saw that - however, I cannot access anything around unifi …

sleeepy2 · July 10, 2019, 3:22pm

Is the user you are using for the Integration setup as Admin in the controller?
I remember reading some where that it didn’t need to be but then on another post that it did.
Also if your Unifi Site isn’t Default, you need to change that in the configuration.yaml.

j.assuncao · July 10, 2019, 5:09pm

There is an important question to ask: are you running the Unifi Controller 24/7?

If not, the is no actual Controller for you to connect to. The Controller is only accessible when running on your Mac.

You can make a test, installing the Controller within your Hassio installation (there is an add-on for it) and configuring it all again. Running as an add-on you’ll have 24/7 access to the Controller.

svenschuldt · July 10, 2019, 5:34pm

That is a very good point and you are basically right - however, it should be able to connect while running on the iMac and during all my different tries, it was running on the iMac.

By the way, are you referring to this Unifi Controller add-on?

j.assuncao · July 10, 2019, 5:44pm

Yes, if you had the Controller running you should have been able to connect to it.

That’s the addon I was referring! I have used it for months without any problem but switched for a dedicated VM.

svenschuldt · July 11, 2019, 4:16am

It is always about searching, reading. attempting, learning and eventually finding.

I am sure everybody is going to laugh now at me but I had a weird thought considering the IP Address of the Unifi Controller When I look into the controller settings of the Unifi Controller, it shows me a controller IP address which I have used in my endless attempts, however, I am not quite sure why that IP address appears there, because the IP address to be used is logically the IP address of the computer running the UNIFI controller and NOT the IP Address shown in the configuration settings of the controller.

Solving a problem, which is not a problem

flamingm0e · July 11, 2019, 5:29am

You need to change that IP to match your controller IP address.

svenschuldt · July 11, 2019, 5:41am

When you say that, you mean I have to change that IP address to the ip address of the computer running the UNIFI Controller, right?

flamingm0e · July 11, 2019, 12:42pm

Yes. That IP is what is handed to an AP when it is added, to find the controller.

jwbtx · July 2, 2020, 12:12am

I am having issues getting HA to connect to Unifi. The log reports:

Log Details (ERROR)

Logger: homeassistant.components.unifi
Source: components/unifi/controller.py:434
Integration: Ubiquiti UniFi (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 6:15:42 PM (4 occurrences)
Last logged: 6:28:50 PM

Error connecting to the UniFi controller at 192.168.0.123.

My entry in my config.yaml is below. I have it logging in as a read only account and verified those creds work.
Any direction to read up on is greatly appreciated.
Just for clarity. This is running on the same Synology, but in a different container, not as an add-on.

##################
###Device Trackers
##################
device_tracker:
###Unifi
  - platform: unifi
    host: 192.168.0.123:8443
    username: !secret unifi_user
    password: !secret unifi_pw
    verify_ssl: false

jwb

elgatho · April 8, 2021, 1:54pm

Hello i have multiple sites @ my unifi configuration.
Is there any possibility to point which site integration should use?

Robban · April 8, 2021, 8:08pm

You select site when you setup the integration

elgatho · April 8, 2021, 8:52pm

Nope,there is no such option, but i found solution.
When you are creating HA user, create it in apriopriate site., then you have access only to desired location

Robban · April 8, 2021, 9:26pm

Then something is amiss since it has branching points depending on if you have one or more sites https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/a59460a23336627d0bc12b1eefffdaa516e55e87/homeassistant/components/unifi/config_flow.py#L182

dfortier · February 21, 2022, 10:37pm

Anyone know what to do if you change your unifi controller ip after the integration has already been installed? I moved my unifi controller to a cloud host so I need to update the ip. I tried to update it in the config but the error logs still show it looking for the local address.

KennethLavrsen · March 8, 2022, 1:34pm

Yes. How do we do this?

Why is it the Addon in general (with a few exceptions) does not allow you to alter basic config settings like IP address and password?.

The values are stored in the file config/.storage/core.config_entries

But I actually raised this issue a while ago and it was fixed but poorly documented.

There is a generic UI component missing in Core HA for configuration of Addons in general. Most implement nothing. You can either hack JSON files or remove the Addon and re -add it and clean up the mess it causes.

github.com/home-assistant/core

Unifi integration configuration does not allow any way to change IP address or password

opened 07:18PM - 01 Jun 21 UTC

closed 01:42PM - 06 Jul 21 UTC

KennethLavrsen

integration: unifi

### The problem The Unifi integration - after it was moved from YAML to UI ba…sed (which is good) lost the ability for the user to change essential basic settings like IP address (if I decide to replan the IP range) or password. After having seen some recent ransomware attacks on various 3rd party boxes I have been changing passwords on several units that are integrated with Home Assistant and I have been a bit shocked to find out that the only way you can change the password in the HA config for Unifi is to delete the entire integration and start all over again. And then you can start cleaning up the mess. We need to be able to alter the IP address or domain name, and passwords. As a minimum passwords. Changing passwords periodically is part of good safety practice and should not been treated as an exception. I chose to hack the core.config_entries and then restart Home Assistant. That works just fine. But risky. Users should never have to hack .storage files. The UI should give the same config settings. For this interation the settings the UI miss are - Host (IP) - Port - Username - Password And the existing password should not be displayed. You should just be able to replace it with a new password. This is a generic issue with many integrations and I will raise reports on all of them ### What is version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2021.5.5 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? never ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue Unifi ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/unifi/ ### Example YAML snippet ```yaml N/A ``` ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt N/A ``` ### Additional information MQTT Integration has implemented the reconfiguration very nicely. It allows changing all the original config settings.

You need to restart Home Assistant for the new config to be loaded. Did you do that?

dfortier · March 10, 2022, 9:09pm

I ended up removing and re-adding the integration.

sebby · March 20, 2022, 2:37pm

is there a way to filter what gets picked up by the integration? i have about 100 devices on my network and this ends up creating about 400 entities.