diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 4ecccece153..b4ab8e17c0a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "homeassistant/external/pynetgear"]
-	path = homeassistant/external/pynetgear
-	url = https://github.com/balloob/pynetgear.git
 [submodule "homeassistant/external/pywemo"]
 	path = homeassistant/external/pywemo
 	url = https://github.com/balloob/pywemo.git
diff --git a/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/netgear.py b/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/netgear.py
index 102bc78ff47..3fe11f99fe6 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/netgear.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/netgear.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from homeassistant.components.device_tracker import DOMAIN
 MIN_TIME_BETWEEN_SCANS = timedelta(seconds=5)
 
 _LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+REQUIREMENTS = ['pynetgear>=0.1']
 
 
 def get_scanner(hass, config):
@@ -64,22 +65,10 @@ class NetgearDeviceScanner(object):
     """ This class queries a Netgear wireless router using the SOAP-API. """
 
     def __init__(self, host, username, password):
+        import pynetgear
+
         self.last_results = []
 
-        try:
-            # Pylint does not play nice if not every folders has an __init__.py
-            # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module, import-error
-            import homeassistant.external.pynetgear.pynetgear as pynetgear
-        except ImportError:
-            _LOGGER.exception(
-                ("Failed to import pynetgear. "
-                 "Did you maybe not run `git submodule init` "
-                 "and `git submodule update`?"))
-
-            self.success_init = False
-
-            return
-
         self._api = pynetgear.Netgear(host, username, password)
         self.lock = threading.Lock()
 
diff --git a/homeassistant/external/pynetgear b/homeassistant/external/pynetgear
deleted file mode 160000
index e946ecf7926..00000000000
--- a/homeassistant/external/pynetgear
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit e946ecf7926b9b2adaa1e3127a9738201a1b1fc7
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f9d11975e97..f70d755d5d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -79,3 +79,6 @@ PyMata==2.07a
 
 # Mysensors
 https://github.com/theolind/pymysensors/archive/master.zip#egg=pymysensors-0.1
+
+# Netgear (device_tracker.netgear)
+pynetgear>=0.1