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
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
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 ?
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
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?