Automate your Internet with Home Assistant and Unifi

Automating your internet and network devices has never been easier than with the Home Assistant and Unifi Integration, in this video we go through and show you how to configure the Home Assistant Unifi integration so that you can automatically control any of your network devices connected to your Unifi switch or wireless access points. We also create a basic automation to show you how it works in practice!

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - What you will need
1:24 - Adding a Home Assistant user
2:02 - Adding the Unifi Integration to Home Assistant
3:02 - Configuring Unifi integration for network control
4:19 - Controlling devices through Home Assistant
5:18 - Automation example for Internet scheduling

[EverythingSmartHome]

What are you automating on your network? 😎

[RyanSmith-thsz]

Exactly what I've been wanting to do. It's like you're reading my mind when you post these tutorials. Thanks!

[peterkrywiak]

Fantastic, just what I needed, when I needed it. As always, concise and to the point, with clear instructions. Thanks!!

[jeffreyanderson]

The automation example was great. I was able to combine a ton of my automations. An idea for a future video could be automation tips and examples to simplify a person’s current HA automation list.

[slidewarrior]

Thanks for this I was confused on best way to integrate unifi as I've got it running in docker on my NAS, this helped enormously.

[jamesgedney-higham]

This is perfect timing, my kids wanted Alexa's in their rooms for Christmas and was hoping to do just this so they wouldn't stay up late listening to music!

[kjjordans]

How would you go about writing an automation to cut access after a certain time online? Say give the kids 1 hour / day on the internet and add some time if they complete chores, etc.

[DanielCCM]

Awesome tutorial! Easy to follow as usual... you make these chores look so easy!! Now I only need someone to sponsor a mini Unify setup... 😅

[hansnorling]

You're too lovely,
Good and (very) quick review of the most important things.
Then it's just for the rest of us to rewind and learn.
Repetition is the mother of learning :-)
Very good!

[jamegrabham]

Great video Lewis...thank you...I have Reolink cameras, and I hate getting alarms from them when we are home, so I got into my cameras and turn off all alarms, and turn them back on when I leave...(a real pain)...I use Unifi with a Unifi POE switch, and Unifi access points...now I will just turn the port on or off with HA...Jame

[surfingnoid]

Very impressive. That was a lot of information, clearly explained, in only 8 minutes. Well done!

[Andre-xupq]

There is al lot changed in Unifi settings (limited admin)
i have al de enties in my HAS but not in devices where you talkt about? got some tips?

[bennylloyd-willner]

Brilliant, I've been leaning towards building an UniFi network instead of my consumer Netgear stuff which has become frustrating at times. With this great video I stopped leaning towards and will dive in as soon as my wife's company can afford it 😁

[madsskov_dk]

Good walkthrough!
I’ve been using it for a while. The “block device” part always work, but unblock kinda work only when the blocked devices are active.
A powered-off pc, being unblocked by an automation, has no network when powered on.
Anyone else seen this / got a fix for it?

[mrxmry]

Interesting. I didn't know you could control a Unifi network from home assistant. If my numbers ever come up (hopefully today) I'll build a house with a home automation system, and I'll definitely use home assistant and that plugin to control everything, including my network.

[tboss]

Is there a what to shutdown or reboot the UDM Pro from home assistant within the official addon? I would like to do so based on when my UPS turns on. I tried using the RPC shutdown add-on but it says connection refused to the IP address but the credentials match the new super user I created

[jdb]

Seems like the POE option doesn't come on anymore? I have a couple of G4's and one G5. Everything is on POE, but no option in hass. Everything is up to date on today's latest versions. Any help?

[staceysmith]

Has the switch feature been turned off? I can get sensors and trackers to show but no switches for unifi devices.

[ivlis]

A much more flexible approach is to create a template binary sensor which switches on and off depending on a condition and then tie an automation to it.

I am using home presence detection and internet access control for my kids 😁. Many thanks for tips on using options in automations 👍.