Edgerouter X and HA

[aristosv (Aristos)]

I have an Edgerouter X, acting as a DHCP server on my network. Is it possible for HA to communicate with it, and notify me when the family cell phones connect on my WiFi? (or perform any other action)

I don’t have any UniFi devices, just the Edgerouter X.

I found these

Ubiquiti Edgemax Router Presence Detection

Has anyone considered making a component that connects to Ubiquiti routers running on Edgemax to do presence detection? Some examples: Edgerouter Lite (https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/) Edgerouter X (https://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-x/) While there’s no great and straightforward API, the routers are accessible over ssh and a simple “show arp” command would work reasonably well as a starting point for connected devices. Some other ideas are listed here:

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X as device traker

Most likely the port you have configured in the config.yaml (default is: 514) used by some other application. You have two options to solve this: Change the port for erxsyslog to some other port by modifying the config.yaml and obihai syslog port Change the port of the application which is already using the port you are trying. Depending on which OS you are running you will have to find out the application/process using it. I am not 100% sure but I remember some other person had to run this …

But I would really prefer not modifying the Edgerouter software.

[flamingm0e]

@aristosv

Is it possible for HA to communicate with it, and notify me when the family cell phones connect on my WiFi?

Why not use NMAP for that? Or a simple PING device tracker?

[aristosv (Aristos)]

Thanks for the suggestions. I had no idea these options existed. I will give it a try.
Thanks

[flamingm0e]

@aristosv

I had no idea these options existed

Have a look here:

Device tracker

[bar]

I implemented full integration to my ER4, with websocket, working great,
It works for the last 3 weeks without any issue, if you would like to use it I can send you the repo,
It supports:
Device tracker
Traffic analysis per interface (tx/rx totals and per second)
Binary sensor per device (instead ping all devices in network) with trafic analysis (as for interface)
Leased devices sensor to identify if someone connected to the network and you didn’t know

[aristosv (Aristos)]

Sure, please do. I’ll give it a try.

[stevenhorner]

I would be interested in this too. I have an Edgerouter Lite and use Unifi APs for device tracking, but more interested in the Analysis and tracking if wired machines are on rather than using Ping.

Had been thinking about how I could get some simple stats from the router and was thinking about SNMP but this could be better.

[bar]

I used a custom component that someone here in the forum developed but it didn’t update once someone left home, then used snmp with grafana but it didn’t provide the entire solution I was looking for.
After that I install the UNMS server and found out it uses websocket, based on that i implemented the component.

I will create a repo and share it here

[bar]

Custom component: EdgeOS

EdgeOS Description Provides an integration between EdgeOS (Ubiquiti) routers to Home Assistant. GitHub | Changelog How to Requirements EdgeRouter with at least firmware version 2.0 EdgeRouter User with ‘Operator’ level access or higher Traffic Analysis set to ‘Enabled’ (both dpi and export enabled under system/traffic-analysis) To enable / disable interfaces an admin role is a required Installations via HACS In HACS, look for “Ubiquiti EdgeOS Routers” and install and restart In Setting…

Hope you will enjoy it