Automating Ubiquiti Port Forward Rules using Home Assistant

In this video, I will show you how to automatically enable and disable port forwarding rules on a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro using Home Assistant and device trackers to help increase the security of your network!!
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[@thehappyskeptic]

Interesting, and useful - including for using HA to automate ports for entirely different uses, namely opening ports to recertify SSL certs.
What I will also say however is that once I migrated to using Tailscale with HA and just using the Tailscale IP as the main HA IP in the mobile app, I never again needed to care about secure external HA access. It just ‘works’, no need to care about ports and unauthorised access.

[@duuuuus]

Would it be possible to do the same, but with sending a shutdown command instead? If so, could you make a tutorial for that?
I will be integrating a UPS with HA, and would like to send a shutdown command to the UDM SE once the battery level reaches a certain percentage, in case of a longer term power outage

[@fasthowto]

Ooooh, that's a great idea! I have a UPS here as well, and getting it integrated into HA is on my (long!) to-do list. Might be a while before I get to this, but when I do, I'll definitely make a video about it.
Thanks for watching!!

[@HutchCA]

The UniFi Network integration for Home Assistant provides a "switch" entity for each rule so you can directly disable or enable rules with a simple standard automation.
No reason to bother with URLs, CURL or JSON.
I don't have a Dream Machine, I just run Unifi server in a Linux VM. Anyone with ubiquity equipment should have a Unify server or Cloud Key providing the same features.

[@fasthowto]

Yeah, that didn't exist 2 years ago when I implemented this, or even when I filmed it... LOL Robban just added that a month or so ago I think.
However, there are lots of other things you can do with this aside from simply enabling or disabling firewall rules. As I mentioned in the video, be creative, send other commands. There's another comment on here where a guy wants to be able to send a shutdown command to a UDMP-SE. I don't think Robban has added that to the integration just yet.
The same basic premise is used in a much earlier video that I mentioned, about automatically changing passwords on WiFi networks.
Think outside the box! :)
Thanks for watching!