DD-WRT integration does nothing

Configuration
1

I have carefully followed the instructions for installing the DD-WRT integration, and as far as my logs are concerned, there’s no problem. I see in the log that I should restart HA, and I have. Multiple times.

However, after this “success” I have no DD-WRT entities at all that I can find.

I’ve got a GL.iNet Flint DD-WRT router.

Running Home Assistant version:

  • Core2025.2.5
  • Supervisor2025.02.1
  • Operating System14.2
  • Frontend20250221.0

On a rPi 5 running the OS designed for HA.

Any guidance? The irony here is having switched away from a buggy Unifi router, the presence detection available from DD-WRT entities is what got me to move my whole HA setup to an rPI from HA CORE, which wouldn’t support that device.

2

Nobody? Does no one run this integration?

Got further into the logs and found the very unhelpful entry:

ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker] Error setting up platform legacy ddwrt
3

From: DD-WRT - Home Assistant
“The DD-WRT integration was introduced in Home Assistant pre 0.7, and it’s used by 2 active installations.”

So, no.

4

:laughing: I must literally be the only other person. That’s funny. But mine does work… kind of. I have a whole lot of device_tracker.unknowns in mine, so figuring out what they all are or mean is going to be a pain in the butt. (Luckily some of them actually provide somewhat of a MAC/Physical address, so that can help narrow it down.

From what I can gather, you can use it to determine whether a device logs on or not, and that’s pretty much the extent of it. Now maybe… there might be a way to send commands to your router remotely via MQTT or something to enable Acccess Policies on the router, but I haven’t really played around with that too much.