tplink.py device tracker not retrieving all wifi clients

[egorian]

Home Assistant release: 0.57.2

Python release: Python 3.6.1

Component/platform: Device Tracker / tplink (tplink.py)

Description of problem: When having a lot of wifi clients the component only retrieves the first 8 clients, this is because the access point webpage paginate the information and the component only retrieve the first page and completely ignores the next pages. Applies to: Archer C7 firmware 150427 but potentially affects many others tplinks access points. Expected: Retrieve all wifi associated clients, traversing the pagination.

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and steps to reproduce:

device_tracker:
  - platform: tplink
    host: 192.168.1.254  #access point IP
    username: useradmin
    password: abcdefghij

1. Configure device_tracker/tplink component.
2. Have more than 8 clients (in my case more than 20) connect to the wifi router.
3. HomeAssistant only shows the first ones as known devices.

Additional info: I managed to implement a workaround (but there is probably a better/elegant way to code it). I modified the tplink.py line:

      # Check both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz client list URLs
        for clients_url in ('WlanStationRpm.htm', 'WlanStationRpm_5g.htm'):

Changed to:

        # Check both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz client list URLs
        for clients_url in ('WlanStationRpm.htm', 'WlanStationRpm_5g.htm', 'WlanStationRpm.htm?page=2', 'WlanStationRpm.htm?page=3', 'WlanStationRpm_5g.htm?page=2', 'WlanStationRpm_5g.htm?page=3'):

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