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title: "Device Tracker"
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description: "Instructions how to setup device tracking within Home Assistant."
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date: 2015-01-20 22:36
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---
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Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devices are connected. Please check the sidebar for a list of brands of supported wireless routers.
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There are also trackers available which uses different technologies like [MQTT](/components/mqtt/) or [nmap](/components/device_tracker.nmap_scanner/) to scan the network for devices
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To get started add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml` (example for Netgear):
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```yaml
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# Example configuration.yaml entry for Netgear device
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device_tracker:
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platform: netgear
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host: 192.168.1.1
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username: admin
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password: YOUR_PASSWORD
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# Optional configuration
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# If new discovered devices are tracked by default (default: yes)
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track_new_devices: yes
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# Seconds between each scan for new devices (default: 12)
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interval_seconds: 12
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# Seconds to wait till marking someone as not home after not being seen
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# (default: 180)
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consider_home: 180
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```
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Once tracking, a file will be created in your config dir called `known_devices.yaml`. Edit this file to adjust which devices have to be tracked. Here you can also setup a url for each device to be used as the entity picture and set whether the device will be show in the UI when in away state.
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