Ubiquity/Unifi integration( was Re: SNMP integration?)

[James Sentman]

> On Dec 30, 2022, at 9:23 AM, chad at holeinthewoodsfarm.com wrote:
> 
> For what it’s worth to James, or anyone else who might want to work on an XTension plugin for ubiquity…
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> There’s a home assistant integration, which gets you such useful things as current usage, when a new device joins the network, intrusion detection alerts, and a lot of people use it for detecting presence (ie, “my phone is on our network, so I’m home.”  Or “my smart watch is on the network, so I’m home.”)
> 
> I don’t use it, instead using ESPresence for that, pushing from home assistant to XTension via JSON.  So I’m not sure how well it works, but a lot of people use the integration.
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> And, it’s open source.  So, other folks have done the hard part of working out the logic of the ubiquity API.  I’d think James/whomever could swipe that code and use it as a good starting point for an XTension plugin

I love the ESP chips and am happy to look into the support of them. They also have something like ESPHome or something like that which does a lot of stuff people are using. I assume it works by just joining the network and sending some kind of broadcast every so often? There are so many ways you might do this depending on if you were trying to run on batteries or not many of them would work fine with XTension but I’ve added this to my list of stuff to investigate but as you’ve seen if you’re reading the list it’s getting longer and longer even as I return emails the last couple of days ;)

Thanks,
 James


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