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Eero integration for Home Assistant
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Getting IP addresses of connected clients #58

Closed ErickJR13 closed 1 year ago

ErickJR13 commented 1 year ago

Hi!

Would it be possible for the integration to pull the internal IP addresses of connected clients? I have some home servers that change their IP addresses over a reboot, and it'd be cool to grab the new IP from a custom dashboard, for example.

(Huge thanks for this integration, by the way!)

schmittx commented 1 year ago

Yeah, internal IP address is easy enough. In fact, it's already an attribute on the device_tracker entity for any enabled client.

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Does that achieve what you're looking for?

I suppose a new standalone sensor entity could be added with the IP address, but you can also do that currently with a template sensor of your own pulling from the device_tracker entity. So, I think that seems a little needless.

Just a side comment, if you're worried about IP addresses changing over a reboot, why not just create IP reservations within the Eero app?

ErickJR13 commented 1 year ago

Oh, I didn't know it was an attribute of the device_tracker entity. Thank you for pointing this out!

The only oddity I noticed, and it is likely that this is on me given I am using a custom lovelace, is that the entity card says that the device in question is "Home" but I would know when it is Away or Home.

Here is a screenshot of what I mean:

Screenshot 2023-06-30 at 9 45 00 AM

This works for now! If doing an standalone sensor with the IP address is ever in the pipeline, I'd appreciate it! It will simplify things for me haha

Just a side comment, if you're worried about IP addresses changing over a reboot, why not just create IP reservations within the Eero app?

I am having an issue with Proxmox changing the IP addresses of the containers/VMs I set up. Eero sees these device as private, so it isn't able to directly target the devices for IP reservation. While I work on a solution, I added the IP address of the containers to my dashboard so I can easily find/see them.

On another note, is there a way I can donate to the project? This has been a great addition to my smart home setup!

schmittx commented 1 year ago

I just pushed a new release with a standalone sensor added for client IP address, check out 1.3.2.

Regarding the home (connected to network) vs. away (not connected to network) state, those are the standard states for the device_tracker entity.

ErickJR13 commented 1 year ago

You are amazing, thank you so much!! My dashboard look neater and I was able to setup some notification automations in a iffy!

Please let me know if you have a tip jar or something along the lines. Happy to donate for your amazing work!

schmittx commented 1 year ago

Great, glad you're happy!

I appreciate the willingness to donate, but I don't have anything setup and no plans to do so. I'll let you know if that changes.