New user trying to get asuswrt going and not having much luck

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So I am brand new to Home Assistant and home automation in general. I have been bashing my head against the wall for about a week trying to get a general feel of Home Assistant but it’s a darn steep learning curve for me. Things are definitively not intuitive (for me) and I am likely missing some key concepts.
Apologies in advance as my problems are likely common but I just haven’t been able to get anywhere.
I have an Asus RT-AC68U router which I have converted to AsusWRT. I would like to know who is in the house by detecting the ip numbers that are logged into the router.
I looked up the asuswrt integration and all it says for install to set up the configuration.yaml file which I did.
I have the default file that the system sets up on install and I have added

asuswrt:
  host: 192.168.1.1
  username: xxxxxx
  password: xxxxxxx
  sensors:
    - devices
    - upload
    - download
    - upload_speed
    - download_speed
    
device_tracker:
   - platform: asuswrt
     interval_seconds: 10
     consider_home: 180
     track_new_devices: yes

I then restarted Home Assistant and was hoping to see something, anything … but I don’t
BTW, I have tried this without the device_tracker section with the same result.
At this point I am completely lost. I have no idea what I should see, if there are any other steps or whatever. The only thing I know is that there are no devices/sensors/what-have-you for the router listed in the overview.

Again, my apologies for this basic question but the search I did for the asuswrt keyword had replies that were well over my head and am having a hell of a time trying to wrap my mind around all this :frowning:

I am working with Home Assistant 0.114.4

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I am still trying to figure this out. I have found the HA log and I see an Error 111 Connect call failed (‘192.168.1.1’, 22)]. This would seem to indicate that HA is trying to connect on port 22 which is ssh. A lot of the examples also talk about ssh. Am I not able to just connect with the user name and password to my router ?
Under the documentation for asuswrt I see the following:
password string(Optional)
The password for your given admin account (use this if no SSH key is given).
This would seem to say I should be able to log in with just the user name and password.
Is this incorrect ? What am I missing here ?

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I just set this up this evening with the aim of using it for presence detetcion and all I had to was enter the below in my configuration.yaml

asuswrt:
  host: myrouterIP
  username: myrouterusername
  password: myrouterpassword

In the router under Administration - System I set Enable SSH to Yes

I then restarted both my router and HA and under entities I can now see every device connected to my router as a ‘device-tracker’ (that is a bit annoying as I only want mine/my partners phone but hey)

I reckon your issue is that you don’t have SSH enabled on the router

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Good news, setting ‘enable ssh’ and allow password did indeed bring up the entities!
THANK YOU!!! This was driving me nuts.
I have no idea why enabling ssh is required when I am not using ssh but there is no denying the result!.

The only place the entities show up is in ‘configuration - entities’ with a message of:
This entity does not have a unique ID, therefore its settings cannot be managed from the UI.
What do I need to do to have something show up on the UI? Do I have to throw some code at it or i it a setting someplace?

Again, THANKS!

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Took me a while but I have now managed to figure out how to associate a tracked device with a user ad show the users status on the overview page.