I’d find it really useful if we could get a value of the wifi signal strength via the systemmonitor component.
Thanks.
You can get this with a commandline sensor. See for example https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207992/how-to-find-out-the-wifi-sensitivity-rssi
But really, use wired!
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I know how to get it. That doesn’t change the fact that it would be useful as part of systemmonitor.
Did you have any luck with this?
I would like to do the same thing.
Rasb Pi is wired on the same network, but I would like to be able to monitor the wireless signal from the router (strength / on/ off ) as obviously all accessories are wireless.
Rather than trouble shoot individual connection isssues, my first check would then be to see that the wifi from the router is up and working with no outages.
That is surely something you need to get from your router.
Either the router or monitoring signal via the rasp I would have thought yes?
Sometimes I lose wireless connection from the router, yet still have wired connection.
I just want to know if there is an input/output I can monitor from HA
Similar problem here. I need to have WiFi health in my status displays but my HAY is wired. Main router (Linksys) does the outside connection and the hardwired switches, and a WiFi router (TPLink) handles the WiFi hosts. Linksys integration always reports WAN status as good, but the is the Ethernet link signal, not actual connectivity. I also get WiFi RSSI reported by an Apollo MSR-1 air quality sensor, but that only covers WiFi signal strength and interference. I can probably figure out something like a ping sensor that is forced go through a WiFi connection but that will require a dedicated non-wired server box to implement it. I have a good wired link monitor using Netcheck ( TristanBrotherton/netcheck on Github ) which catches 5 second drops in the main line once or twice a week, running that on a wireless Linux box would get me most of the way to what I need. But there ought to be a simpler way.