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Home Assistant can get information from your wireless router to track which devices are connected. There are three different types of supported wireless routers:
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):
# Example configuration.yaml entry for Netgear device
device_tracker:
platform: netgear
host: 192.168.1.1
username: admin
password: YOUR_PASSWORD
track_new_devices: yes
By default, the device tracker will add all found devices into the known_devices.yaml. It will default to displaying them in the UI as well. To disable displaying new devices in the UI, change the value of track_new_devices: to no.
Once tracking, the device_tracker component will maintain a file in your config dir called known_devices.yaml. 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 and set whether the device will be show in the UI when in away state..