Asuswrt presence-detection

Configuration
1

Hi folks, I’m new and am trying to figure out what the status of presence detection is with the asus routers. I have 4 of them setup in an AIMESH configuration with the primary router in AP mode.

I am seeing 8 devices “home” and “away” in my logbook, so I know it is communicating with my router.

BUT - I have 50 wifi devices, shouldn’t I see them all?

I have turned off my phone’s wifi as a test, watched it disappear from the router waited a little while, and turned wifi back on, but it never went home or away in Home Assistant — or even shows up as a device or MAC address there.

Is this broken?

2

post the config for you asus device tracker set up.

what do you see for the devices in your known_devices.yaml file?

3

Hello, here it is (user/pass removed). There are only 10 devices in my known_devices.yaml

asuswrt:
  host: 10.0.1.2
  username: 
  password: 
  mode: ap
device_tracker:
  - platform: asuswrt
    host: 10.0.1.2
    username: 
    password: 
    interval_seconds: 12
    consider_home: 300
    new_device_defaults:
      track_new_devices: true
      hide_if_away: false
4

I have the Aimesh with 3 routers and it works great. Difference in yaml file is I don’t use mode and I don’t use interval and consider home.

5

Another discovery: everything in my known hosts is a device on my WIRED lan. There are no devices in my wireless network listed. I am using the router in AP mode: I have a different device that does DHCP, firewall, DNS, etc. Is this not monitoring the wireless log for connects and disconnects?

6

I was also using the Asuswrt presence detection with an Asus router in AP mode, but could not get it to detect wireless devices.

7

This definitely seems to be what is happening with me as well. A real bummer, this would have been perfect for me for accurate geofencing. I may have to cobble something else together with one of the other presence options.

8

Hi everyone,
Found the correct data in the RT-AC67U AIMesh setup I have 7 of them on our site.
Have made a feature request to get more location data from our routers:

Please add suggestions and or improvements

And perhaps there is someone nice enough to help me improve my HA