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FRITZ!Box Tools in Home Assistant

fritz part of Home Assistant since 0.10

Local, polling Set up in the user interface Quality: Gold

FRITZ!Box Tools is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Image, Presence detection, Sensor and Update. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Hub – several devices through one gateway or account
Quality scale
Gold – Very good user experience: set up in the interface, discovered automatically, documented in detail.
Installations
47,648 (7.0 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Binary sensor, Image, Presence detection, Sensor, Update
Provides
Binary sensor, Button, Device tracker, Diagnostics, Image, Sensor, Switch, Update
Found automatically via
Network discovery (SSDP)
Maintained by
@AaronDavidSchneider, @chemelli74, @mib1185
Python packages
fritzconnection[qr]==1.15.1, xmltodict==1.0.4

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for FRITZ!Box Tools.
  4. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Blueprints that use this integration

  • Automation Timer based internet access ♥ 10 · Import · Forum

All blueprints for it

Known issues and fixes

20 open issues and 23 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for FRITZ!Box Tools in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.

Open

  • open Reported problem #156891 since November 19, 2025 · 11 reactions · 13 comments · #156891
  • open Reported problem #149105 since July 20, 2025 · 4 reactions · 37 comments · #149105
  • open Reported problem #138504 since February 14, 2025 · 2 reactions · 20 comments · #138504
  • open Reported problem #179105 since August 14, 2026 · 1 reaction · 17 comments · #179105
  • open Reported problem #160146 since January 2, 2026 · 1 reaction · 17 comments · #160146
  • open Reported problem #155012 since October 22, 2025 · 1 reaction · 5 comments · #155012
  • open Reported problem #180932 since August 31, 2026 · 1 reaction · 1 comment · #180932
  • open Reported problem #170171 since May 9, 2026 · 0 reactions · 30 comments · #170171

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 14, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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