Home assistant integration for Netgear WAX204 router.
Provides a device tracker for devices connected to the router. Works by scraping the router's web UI.
Note that the WAX204 has an odd limitation - only one user can be signed into the web UI at a time. This poses a challenge for our automation - if we scrape the web UI every 30 seconds you will be locked out from manually using the web UI.
Our solution is to detect when someone starts using the web UI (by noticing that we were signed out) and wait 10 minutes before signing in again and continuing to scrape. This means that if you manually sign into the router web UI, the device tracker will pause for 10 minutes and device status won't update.
Install with HACS as a custom repository.
Settings -> Devices and Services -> Add integration -> Netgear WAX204
Open the project with visual studio code as a devcontainer. You can use the container to start home assistant and manually test the integration.
Run this command to start home assistant and test the extension:
> scripts/develop
Or in vscode choose cmd + shift + p -> Tasks: Run Task -> Run Home Assistant on port 8123
Home Assistant listens for a debugpy debugger on port 5678.
Attach using vscode's built-in debugger:
Run and Debug (play arrow on left menu) -> Python: Attach to Home Assistant
Run tests using pytest:
> pytest
Some of the tests connect to the router and read the router host and password from a file. Create this file and set to your router's hostname and password:
test/test-data.properties
router_host=192.168.1.1
router_password=hunter2
requirements.txt- Upgradehomeassistantrequirements-dev.txt- Upgradepytest-homeassistant-custom-componentto the version which matches yourhomeassistantversionhacs.json- If the minimum required home assistant version changed, updatehomeassistant