Home Assistant

Bbox

The bbox integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] uses the Bbox Modem Router from the French Internet provider Bouygues Telecom. Sensors are mainly bandwidth measures.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

Due to third party limitation, the sensors will only be available if Home Assistant and the Bbox are on the same local area network. You can check this by going to 192.168.1.254 with your web browser.

Presence detection

The bbox integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a Bbox based router from Bouygues, which is one of the main Internet provider in France.

Bbox is a generic name for different hardware routers. The integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] has been tested with the following devices:

  • Sagem F@st 5330b

Configuration

To use an Bbox router in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
device_tracker:
  - platform: bbox

Configuration Variables

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host string (Optional, default: 192.168.1.254)

IP address of your Bbox device.

For now and due to third party limitation, the Bbox must be on the same local network as the Home Assistant installation.

See the device tracker integration page for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.

Sensor

To add Bbox sensors to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: bbox
    monitored_variables:
      - down_max_bandwidth
      - up_max_bandwidth
      - current_down_bandwidth
      - current_up_bandwidth
      - uptime
      - number_of_reboots

Configuration Variables

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name string (Optional, default: Bbox)

Name to display in the frontend.

monitored_variables list Required

Sensors to display in the frontend.

down_max_bandwidth

Maximum bandwidth available for download.

up_max_bandwidth

Maximum bandwidth available for upload.

current_down_bandwidth

Instant measure of the current used bandwidth for download.

current_up_bandwidth

Instant measure of the current used bandwidth for upload.

uptime

Uptime since the last boot.

number_of_reboots

Number of reboot since the initial configuration of the router.

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