Unifi Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)

[Jur.wouw (Jurgen van de Wouw)]

Unifi requires MFA starting from mid-July. The Unifi integration is not yet ready for this, so I had to disable MFA in the Unifi environment again.

[Dujith (Charles Evers)]

You should just make a local admin in your controller.
That way its just local and you wont need an online account for unifi integration.

Best to keep MFA imo

[Robban]

The integrations expect local accounts which are not required to have 2FA enabled.

See this thread 2FA added to the Unifi Ubiquiti component - #10 by AngellusMortis

[Jur.wouw (Jurgen van de Wouw)]

Create a local admin did the job. Problem resolved!
Thanks for the reply’s. That saved me a lot of time.

[NordFreak (Chris)]

Thanks for the quick solution of my problem

[wishie (Travis Place)]

Making a ‘local admin’ account doesnt help for those of us that run the unifi controller in the cloud, and manage a heap of sites.

[Robban]

You could probably setup a VPN between controller and home assistant to make them seem local and then use local accounts

[geee]

has anyone managed to find a workaround for this? Local account didn’t work for me as it’s cloud too… thanks!

[Robban]

UniFi Network integration - official thread

Based on the Protect documentation: Local user You will need a local user created in your UniFi OS Console to log in with. Ubiquiti SSO Cloud Users will not work. It is recommended you use the Administrator or a user with full read/write access to get the most out of the integration, but it is not required. The entities that are created will automatically adjust based on the permissions of the user you use has. Login to your UniFi OS device. This can be done from the UniFi OS by accessing…