Hi, i have integrated my netgear orbi router in home assistant and wanted to detect my presence using the “device_tracker”-states created by HA for each device connected via wifi. This worked well for a while, but i noticed that the number of tracked devices became bigger and bigger over time, up to the point where my phone was no longer recongnized as “home”/connected anymore under the known name/adress. Instead there was a new device “DEV-XYZ” with a new adress. I figured that this was my phone using a new address, so i created a new friendly name and added it to my person. This happend a few times, while more and more devices appeared.
I tried to switch off the “private wifi-adress” in my phones wifi-setting as well as setting it to “rotate”. I also disabled the “limit IP-adress tracking” option, but nothing helped. Now my phone isnt even shwoing up at all anymore…what am i doing wrong? Thanks for your help
On your router, have you defined a reserved IP address for the phone? That should stop it changing.
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no, i am struggling to connect to the netgear login page at the moment and cant try this out. But i am trying to get this wirking.
What could be the issue for my phone to not even show up as “home” anymore at all?