Get UniFi switch temperature?

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1

Anyone played with this?
As I understand it:

  1. have to ssh into the switch
  2. once connected, telnet localhost
  3. show env
    this returns the temperatures.
    Having BIG issues with ssh!
2

You really expect help with so little info?

3

Thank you for your observation.
Do you think it unacceptable to ask if anyone is playing with UniFi switch temperatures?
I could have stopped at that request. I did, however include some further information.

The question remains - has anyone done any work on this subject?

4

What have you tried so far? What is the difficulty you have with ssh? Why would you ssh in and then run telnet?

5

AFAIK not all Unifi switches have a temperature sensor, but if they do it should be in the device info that you can pull out via the controller software.

There is a useful browser tool that lets you check what info is available from the device, demo here:

https://api-browser-demo.artofwifi.net/?action=list_devices

So adapting the Unifi device tracker to grab this info should be possible.

6

Why SSH then Telnet
Because that’s the way the switches work. There is very little exposed to an ssh session; the full cli is only available when telnet connected - no you can’t directly telnet into the switch.

SSH is username & password.

I didn’t want to have to import big SSH libraries, trying to keep this simple; unfortunately, Python’s SSH is not brilliant without importing external libraries.

7

would be nice if it had api calls, so no need to start searching for and re-formatting data

8

I think the info available is very device dependent. As are default access methods (http, ssh, telnet etc).