[Custom component] AsusRouter integration

[boheme61]

If, you mean me , everything is fine here, was my point

[Vaskivskyi (Yevhenii Vaskivskyi)]

0.21.1 Support for HA 2023.3.x

2023-02-24

→ GitHub change log ←

Features

• Added support for HA 2023.3.x

Dependencies

• Bumped asusrouter library to 0.20.3

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Support AsusRouter

Monetary support:

• You can make a donation using the Buy Me a Coffee service
• Thinking of buying a new Asus router to use with AsusRouter integration? Check the compatibility list in our Docs. If you will use any of the Amazon Associate links, I might get a small (1-3%) bonus from Amazon (usage of the associate links does not change the price of the items for you)

Non-monetary support:

• Star AsusRouter repository
• Know a person with an Asus device using Home Assistant but not AsusRouter? Let them know, AsusRouter is cool and has lots of useful features

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106 votes

Add `AsusRouter` integration to HA Core

Link to the corresponding PR Introduction Home Assistant has ASUSWRT core integration, which supports SSH and telnet connections to the Asus routers. Unfortunately, this integration (or to be exact this kind of connection) does not work well with the devices on the newer firmware (versions 386.x released in 2020 and versions 388.x released in 2022). For the last year I am developing custom AsusRouter integration which got reasonably popular. It supports HTTP(S) connection to the …

[Duivelmolen]

Installed the update. now I’ve got 3 integrations
The log says:
Platform asusrouter does not generate unique IDs

[Vaskivskyi (Yevhenii Vaskivskyi)]

@Duivelmolen,

Did 2 additional duplicates appear by themself after the update? Or was the device discovered (even though already set up) and you added it again?

In the last case, please just delete the duplicates.

The issue with the discovery of the already set up device is not yet fixed and requires some time to fix. Meanwhile, you can just “ignore” it using the Ignote button in HA - it won’t appear again

[Duivelmolen]

@Vaskivskyi

Or was the device discovered (even though already set up) and you added it again?

Yes like that. I will remove them

[neeu2]

Hi @Vaskivskyi
Could you consider adding Reboot DDNS client button as a feature request please.
Many thanks

[Vaskivskyi (Yevhenii Vaskivskyi)]

Hello, @neeu2,

If this can be done from Web UI, it should be possible to implement it into the integration.

How do you perform DDNS restart from Web UI? So it would be easier for me to find all the needed info.

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

Is it possible that this integration would slow down router in any way? I experienced occasionally that my router became slow, unresponsive when i tried to enter router’s config page and i’ve had to reboot it eventually…
Now i run HA without asus integration for a couple of weeks now and router is stable so far, but i can’t just tell yet… i’d have to reinstall addon and see if becomes slow again.

When i’ve had addon installed i’ve had all sensors “included”, maybe there were too many traffic…?

I run rt-ax88U as main router, then 2x RT-AC86U and 1x RP-AX56 as AiMesh points ( first two are connected wired, last one is connected wirelessly to main router).

[neeu2]

Doing via Web UI involves Clicking ‘No’ to ‘Enable the DDNS client’ and then ‘Apply’ and then clicking ‘Yes’ to the same setting and ‘Apply’ the setting (Under Advanced Settings>WAN>DDNS). Please see the image below. I normally use SSH and then run “service restart_ddns”

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

If it helps in any way: you can restart ddns client with Merlin’s addon “scMerlin”…

[Vaskivskyi (Yevhenii Vaskivskyi)]

@neeu2, @Protoncek, great. Thanks for the tips! I’ll check it out. Should not be too hard, probably

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@Protoncek, hey. The integration works with the device the same way, as Web UI does and connects using the same method. It can slowly increase RAM usage (to keep the session live) but should be cleaned properly by the device and free the RAM by itself.

Do you accidentally have Merlin 388.1 on your RT-AX88U? This is something I am experiencing with my one - from time to time it stops responding to new SSL sessions (e.g. if you want to login into Web UI), but at the same time all the other sessions are kept live well. Also, you can access via non-SSL session. Unfortunately, this is something FW-related and does not happen on stock or just in older versions.

Edit: in my case, this is a self-fixed thing. Everything recovers in a couple of minutes without any useful info in the log

[Protoncek (Pavel)]

Yes, i do run 388.1 fw. So, it’s fw’s fault… ok, good to know, in this case let’s hope that next one will fix that. Thanks!

[Cronix]

Hi, I just upgraded. I’m also using latest merlin fw and after upgrading and rebooting HA had the device (AX11000) rediscovered. I haven’t configured/added the newly discovered device yet as I was confused, so came here and saw this thread.

Should I “ignore” the new device (3 dot menu), or delete the original one and setup the newly discovered one?

Thanks!

[Vaskivskyi (Yevhenii Vaskivskyi)]

Hello. A new version will be available in the following couple of days, which should solve the issue with rediscovered devices. Until that time, you can ignore the rediscovered device

[RogerNL]

Hello all,

I’m new to HA and on a steep learning curve with all the cards, especially the cards in the cards etc. Best way of learning is figuring out someone else’s making. So, if you have created an awesome dashboard, please share it here with the code, to help me to learn dashboard/card creation. That would be much appreciated!

@Vaskivskyi what an awesome job you did, and as far as I can make from the documentation and the information you share and your support on this forum, a very professional awesome job. Thank you very much.

[boheme61]

@RogerNL

to help me to learn dashboard/card creation

Please search the Forum for this, there are lots of exam ples, for / with card-code, view code etc. etc. , AND it’s nothing you should “request” under this, or other Component specific Topics, these specific Topics are made for the component, releases, troubleshooting etc

[RogerNL]

Thanks for your reply.

I did and tried all 4 of them that had code, with different outcome.
I’m still interested in other examples.

[Anthony31881 (Anthony L)]

Great work!!

I have linked various Asus Router device tracker to various Person entities and it is working great wrt. identifying is someone is being home.

But having problems when I try to use Person directly to plan my morning commute route as it lacks the GPS location when sourced by the Asus device tracker and have to work around by changing quite configure redirect my automations and scripts from the Person entities to various mobile app device tracker entities.

Is it possible to add GPS location using an user configurable default home GPS location for all stationary tracker for this type of use case in the future?

[Cronix]

GPS is not something routers deal with, at least not that I’ve ever heard. The router has no way to know GPS coordinates of devices connected to it. GPS is not part of LAN networking protocols. All it can really provide is if a device connects/disconnects to the network and identify it by the devices MAC address. The app is different because it can send any data (including GPS coordinates) via whatever network connection is established, back to another app/server that reads and uses it.

[Gav_in]

We’re way off topic here (sorry) but just use your Home location as your start point and plan your commute from there…your home lat/long is already setup in HA (most likely) so just use this as part of your setup…so if this Integration shows you at home then calc commute from home lat/long to your destination…

Now back to Integration only talk