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Fing

The Fing integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows Home Assistant to retrieve detailed information about the devices on your local network. Fing helps home users and IT professionals monitor, protect, and understand their networks with intuitive tools that make connectivity management simple and effective. By connecting through the Local API, Fing automatically builds and synchronizes an inventory of devices to detect online presence and trigger automations.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the Local API is enabled on your Fing Agent (Fing Agent, Fingbox, or Fing Desktop).
  • You will need your Fing Agent’s IP address, port, and API key to complete the setup.

Configuration

To add the Fing integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

Troubleshooting

If you experience issues with the Fing integration, 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.
  • Make sure your Local API version is 1.1.0 or newer.

Removing the integration

You can remove this integration following the standard Home Assistant procedure.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

  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. Next to the entry, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.

Once the integration is deleted, you may also disable the Fing Local API on your network if you no longer plan to use it.