AsusWRT issues - Constantly home/away

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Hi
AsusWRT issues started I think with 0.83. Since then I have been using a custom component to get it going again (just the old AsusWRT).
From 0.88, HA complained about the format of the custom component. I renamed it and put it in the correct folder and then it was fine. (No errors)
From 0.89 HA wont run the custom component anymore. I tried to go back to the default AsusWRT component, but now while its working, it keeps me ‘home’ for 25 min, and then i show as ‘away’ for 5 minutes. It constantly cycles through like this.

Any idea on how I can fix this?
BTW Router is an Asus RT-AC66U - Telnet.

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What I have just noticed now is that the home/away cycles have become a little shorter.
Is this just an issue that the updated component has with the Asus RT-AC66U, as alot of the people with asuswrt issues seems to have this router.

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I have the same issue when using the AsusWRT from build 0.89 with my RT-AC66U. Also been using an old AsusWRT component in the custom component folder for a while since the new releases don’t work properly.
Now when they changed the custom component file structure I created an empty file named __init__.py in the AsusWRT custom folder and my old reliable component is working again.

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Cool i can give that a go.
If I may ask, how do you create a init.py file?

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I just made an empty text file but I see now that the underscores are gone in my previous text. It should be __init__.py

Ref. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2019/03/06/release-89/#noteworthy-breaking-changes

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OK done all that but still struggling. For the life of me I can’t figure out why.

Unable to prepare setup for platform asuswrt.device_tracker: Could not set up all dependencies.

init.py text file is in the asuswrt fiolder with device_tracker.py and pycache and still it will no longer start.

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Did you change back to the old style config with only asuswrt in the device tracking configuration?

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Yes I did. I still had the old one commented out so easy to put back in.

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I get that fault message if I name the __init__.py without the double underscore before and after init.

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Well now Home Assistant just wont start, so will have to come back to this later. :frowning:

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Ok least i fixed the startup issues. Though AsusWRT still plagues me.

2019-03-19 22:03:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Error during setup of component asuswrt
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/setup.py”, line 151, in _async_setup_component
hass, processed_config)
File “/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/asuswrt/init.py”, line 48, in async_setup
conf = config[DOMAIN]
KeyError: ‘asuswrt’
2019-03-19 22:03:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to set up dependencies of asuswrt.device_tracker. Setup failed for dependencies: asuswrt
2019-03-19 22:03:53 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Unable to prepare setup for platform asuswrt.device_tracker: Could not set up all dependencies.

It used to work fine for months, so what in the update could still be hanging it up?

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So after updating to 0.90, the stock AsusWRT component is working properly, without any need for custom components.

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