The Netgear
Home Assistant integration is a completely local (no cloud) integration that allows you to integrate your Netgear WAX access points into Home Assistant. Today this integration supports the WAX device models but is coded to make it easy to add other devices in the future.
Supports turning on WI-FI SSIDs. This is particular useful if you want to automate turning on your guest WI-FI network.
To install with HACS:
- Click on HACS in the Home Assistant menu
- Click on Integrations
- Click the EXPLORE & ADD REPOSITORIES button
- Search for
Netgear
- Click the INSTALL THIS REPOSITORY IN HACS button
- Restart Home Assistant Configure the access point by going to Configurations -> Integrations -> ADD INTERATIONS button, search for Netgear and configure the device.
To manually install:
# Download a copy of this repository
$ wget https://github.com/rroller/netgear/archive/netgear-main.zip
# Unzip the archive
$ unzip netgear_wax-main.zip
# Move the netgear_wax directory into your custom_components directory in your Home Assistant install
$ mv netgear_wax-main/custom_components/netgear_wax <home-assistant-install-directory>/config/custom_components/
โ ๏ธ After executing one of the above installation methods, restart Home Assistant. Also clear your browser cache before proceeding to the next step, as the integration may not be visible otherwise.
- Now the integration is added to HACS and available in the normal HA integration installation, so...
- In the HA left menu, click
Configuration
- Click
Integrations
- Click
ADD INTEGRATION
- Type
Netgear
and select it - Enter the details:
- Username: Your device username, typically
admin
- Password: Your device password
- Address: Your device IP address
- Port: Your device port, typical
443
- Username: Your device username, typically
- WAX-610
- WAX-620
- WAX-630
- WAC-510
- Probably the other WA* devices but I haven't tested them
Please let me know if you've tested with additional devices
- Toggling wifi on/off taks about 25 seconds. During that time the switch in the UI may toggle to the original setting until the underlying call completes on the API. There's no harm but just a jaring user experience that needs to be worked out.
Switch | Description |
---|---|
SSID | Enables or disables a WI-FI ssid |
Sensor | Description |
---|---|
Update Sensor | Shows when the device has a firmware update. Checked every few hours |
WLAN Channel Util | Shows how saturated the channel is |
Traffic Sensor | Shows a count of bytes sent over the wlan or lan interface |
Connected Clients Sensor | Shows a count of the total number of connected clients |
IP Address Sensor | Shows the device IP address |
MAC Sensor | Shows the device MAC |
If you wish to work on this component, the easiest way is to follow HACS Dev Container README . In short:
- Install Docker
- Install Visual Studio Code
- Install the devcontainer Visual Code plugin
- Clone this repo and open it in Visual Studio Code
- View -> Command Palette. Type
Tasks: Run Task
and select it, then clickRun Home Assistant on port 9123
- Open Home Assistant at http://localhost:9123
Add to your configuration.yaml:
logger:
default: info
logs:
custom_components.netgear_wax: debug