I’m trying to figure out how to use the Unifi Network integration to detect / notify me when new clients connect to my WIFI network. It appears like new entities are disabled by default when they are picked up by the Unifi Network integration. If I’m not mistaken it’s impossibles to tell that these new disabled entities where found by the integration from within automations / Home Assistant, is that correct?
Also, is there a way to disable the behavior of adding new client entities disabled? The “Enable newly added entities.” option appears to be on for me already, so that doesn’t seem to work.
The integration’s documentation doesn’t seem to help to solve this.
Thank you. This seems reasonable. Is my understanding correct that
a) device_tracker_new_device is no longer relevant and deprecated and listening for entity_registry_updated will be enough?
b) that the entity_registry_updated with action create event does not carry any information about the integration that created the entity?
c) There’s no way to automatically enable the entity after the entity_registry_updated fired for new entities?
a. I believe so - there was a discussion thread about new device notifications at the time (which is where I found this alternative approach documented).
b. I can’t honestly say I’ve checked
c. I don’t believe so - the unifi network integration used to default to enable (which is why my automation condition’s include ignoring the ghost mac’s occasionally “found” by the Unifi controller). I believ this was changed some time back by popular request.