[Solved] Device tracker issue Fritz!Box 7560

Configuration
1

Hi everybody,

I recieved a new Router “Fritz!Box 7560” with an updated version for FritzOS (7.0). Now my device tracker stopped working.
My Hassio logs show the following:

2018-08-16 07:34:07 ERROR (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker.fritz] Failed to establish connection to FRITZ!Box with IP: 169.254.1.1
2018-08-16 07:34:07 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker] Error setting up platform fritz

Which is not very helpful. My Router claims that I am using a wrong password.
Currently I have:

device_tracker:
  - platform: fritz

But I also tried to set a password explicitly and to set up an user in Fritz!Box, but no success.

Any Idea?

2

So after some more trying out, I found the solution. I had the wifi configured to use an static IP address. Even thought I was able to connect to my device, the Pi itself had no access to the internet. Changing the IP adress to auto using the USB stick method solved both issues.

[ipv4]
method=auto
3

Why do you use the backup ip 169.254.1.1 instead of the configured ip of the FritzBox (eg 192.168.178.1)?

4

I do no know. :smiley: 169.254.1.1 is what works for me.

5

It’s the default setting.