Device Tracking

Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devices are connected. There are three different types of supported wireless routers:

• DD-WRT
• tomato
• netgear
• luci (OpenWRT)
• TP-Link

You can also decide to directly scan the network for devices by using the nmap scanner.

To get started add the following lines to your configuration.yaml (example for Netgear):

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device_tracker:
  platform: netgear
  host: 192.168.1.1
  username: admin
  password: MY_PASSWORD

Once tracking, the device_tracker component will maintain a file in your config dir called known_devices.csv. Edit this file to adjust which devices have to be tracked. Here you can also setup a url for each device to be used as the entity picture.