Home Assistant

DD-WRT

The ddwrt integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] offers presence detection by looking at connected devices to a DD-WRT based router.

To use a DD-WRT 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: ddwrt
    host: ROUTER_IP_ADDRESS
    username: YOUR_ADMIN_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_ADMIN_PASSWORD

Configuration Variables

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host string Required

The IP address of your router, e.g., 192.168.1.1.

username string Required

The username of a user with administrative privileges, usually admin.

password string Required

The password for your given admin account.

ssl boolean (Optional, default: false)

Whether to connect via HTTPS.

verify_ssl boolean (Optional, default: true)

If SSL/TLS verification for HTTPS resources needs to be turned off (for self-signed certs, etc.)

wireless_only boolean (Optional, default: true)

Whether to only list devices that are connected directly to the router via Wi-Fi or include those connected via Ethernet or other networked access points as well.

By default Home Assistant pulls information about connected devices from DD-WRT every 5 seconds. See the device tracker integration page for instructions how to configure the people to be tracked.

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