UPDATED: Automating Unifi WiFi SSID password changes and QR code generation

[Robban]

@exx

But that’s the difference between developing for yourself vs developing for someone else

For me its 50/50, I’m learning and having fun and at the same time users benefit and feedback.

[racerx]

got it. thanks for the info i’ll mess around with it and see how it goes! your code is still essential for the automating of changing the guest password so it’s much appreciated.

@Robban is there a way to access the png(or jpg) of the qr from the integration so it can be displayed however we want?

[Robban]

UniFi Network integration - official thread

so played around a bit with it and found a way to do this relatively easily, tested and looks good. The details to construct the link are actually in the entity state + attributes this is the template i used to generate the link, where image.guestnet_qr_code = qr entity from the unifi integration entity_picture = link to the api with token embedded state=timestamp that is used in the actual url http://hassio.local:8123{{ state_attr('image.guestnet_qr_code', 'entity_picture') }}&state={{ st…

[backisen (Andreas Back)]

I can’t get this custom component to work. I get error in log and don’t know how to find out what is wrong.

Logger: custom_components.unifi_wifi.coordinator
Source: helpers/update_coordinator.py:353
Integration: Unifi Wifi (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:52:00 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:52:00

Authentication failed while fetching klubben319 data: {'meta': {'rc': 'error', 'msg': 'api.err.LoginRequired'}, 'data': []}

Posted here as well:

api.err.LoginRequired

[exx]

No idea what that is, but it’s not related at all to the topic of this thread.

[Shiftylilbastrd (Shifty78)]

@Robban

I should also add some password re-generation, I feel like that is the missing piece to offer a good guest experience

Please do. I was digging through your integration for this kind of functionality when I came upon this.

[tempest20]

EDIT: I did more reading, found out that the Home Assistant user for Unifi must have admin privileges to enable the QR code - not set as view only. That was the modification I had to make to my system to get it to show up.

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Can anyone point me in the direction of how to implement this in the Unifi network integration? I can’t seem to find and documentation that really covers implementing the QR code, nor form looking around through the integration either.