diff --git a/source/components/device_tracker.markdown b/source/components/device_tracker.markdown
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footer: true
---
-Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devices are connected. There are three different types of supported wireless routers:
+Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devices are connected. There are several brands of supported wireless routers:
- [Actiontec](/components/device_tracker.actiontec.html)
- [Aruba](/components/device_tracker.aruba.html)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devi
- [Thomson](/components/device_tracker.thomson.html)
- [tomato](/components/device_tracker.tomato.html)
- [TP-Link](/components/device_tracker.tplink.html)
+- [Generic SNMP](/components/device_tracker.snmp.html)
Alternative trackers:
diff --git a/source/components/device_tracker.snmp.markdown b/source/components/device_tracker.snmp.markdown
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+---
+layout: page
+title: "Generic SNMP support"
+description: "Instructions how to integrate SNMP into Home Assistant."
+date: 2015-10-08 12:00
+sidebar: false
+comments: false
+sharing: true
+footer: true
+---
+
+
+Most wifi-accesspoints (WAP) and wifi-routers (WRT) support the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
+This is a standardized method for monitoring/manageing network connected devices. SNMP uses a tree-like
+hierarchy where each node is an object. Many of these objects contain (live) lists of insances and metrics,
+like network interfaces, disks, and wifi registrations.
+
+This component uses python-pysnmp.
+
+```yaml
+# Example configuration.yaml entry
+device_tracker:
+ platform: snmp
+ hosts: 192.168.1.1
+ community: public
+ baseoid: 1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.1.2.1.1
+```
+
+`community` is the SNMP community which is configured in the WAP/WRT. Most devices have a default
+community set to to `public` with read-only permission (which is sufficient). This parameter is mandatory
+
+`baseoid` is the OID prefix where wireless client registrations can be found, usually vendor specific.
+It's advised to use the numerical notation. To find this base OID, check vendor documentation or check
+the MIB file for your device.
+
+See the [device tracker component page](/components/device_tracker.html) for instructions how to
+configure the people to be tracked.
diff --git a/source/components/index.markdown b/source/components/index.markdown
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@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ Entities are things that you want to observe within Home Assistant. Support for