Integrate Fing with Home Assistant

Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that lets you control and automate smart devices in your home from a single location. Home assistant runs on most hardware, for example, a Raspberry Pi, a mini PC, a home server or NAS.

With Home Assistant, users can control smart devices through a single dashboard, automate actions based on conditions like time, presence, or device activity, and keep all data local, not on the cloud, for privacy and speed. 

Benefits of the Fing Home Assistant Integration

With Fing integrated, Home Assistant uses device presence data from Fing so your smart home can react instantly to what’s happening on your network.

By continuously monitoring connected devices, Fing provides real-time updates on whether a smartphone, tablet, or other device is online or offline.

Fing integrated with Home Assistant provides more accurate presence detection and more responsive automations, for example:

• Turns lights or appliances on when your phone connects to the network.
• Activates a robot vacuum when all family devices have been offline for a certain time.
• Automatically adjusts home security or energy-saving modes based on who’s home.

How the integration works

The Fing Home Assistant integration uses the Fing Local API provided by your Fing monitoring unit or agent to securely connect Home Assistant with the device information collected on your network.

Once connected, any device on a network monitored by a Fing Agent, Fingbox, or Fing Desktop can be made available inside Home Assistant.

Requirements for Integrating Fing with Home Assistant

To get started, you need:

• A Home Assistant configuration (Home Assistant software running on a hardware device).
• A Fing Agent, Fingbox or Fing Desktop with the Local API enabled.  To enable the Local API, see Connect 3rd Party Apps to Fing (Local API).
• A Fing account.
• The IP address, port, and API key of your Fing Agent.

Integrate Fing with your Home Assistant  through the “Add Integration” button on the Home Assistant Fing integration page.

Integrate Fing with Home Assistant

To add the Fing integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this Home Assistant My button.  If this does not work, follow these steps on Home Assistant.

1. Go to Settings > Devices and Services.
2. In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.
3. From the brand list, select Fing.

4. 

5. The Set up Fing agent window is displayed.

Configure the Port and API keys and match them to the Home Assistant settings, and then click Submit.

Troubleshooting

If you have problems integrating with Fing, try the following:

• Confirm that the Fing Agent is running and reachable on your network.
• Verify that the configured IP address and port in Home Assistant match your Fing agent’s actual settings.

Remove the integration

To remove the Fing integration from Home Assistant, do this:

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
2. From the list of devices, select the integration instance you want to remove.
3. Near the instance, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.

After you remove an integration, you can also disable the Fing Local API on your network if you no longer plan to use it.