Home Assistant Netgear Integration

The Netgear Home Assistant integration is a completely local (no cloud) integration that allows you to integrate your Netgear WAX access points into Home Assistant. Today this integration supports the WAX device models but is coded to make it easy to add other devices in the future.

Supports turning on WI-FI SSIDs. This is particular useful if you want to automate turning on your guest WI-FI network.

Installation

HACS install

To install with HACS:

1. Click on HACS in the Home Assistant menu
2. Click on Integrations
3. Click the EXPLORE & ADD REPOSITORIES button
4. Search for Netgear
5. Click the INSTALL THIS REPOSITORY IN HACS button
6. Restart Home Assistant Configure the access point by going to Configurations -> Integrations -> ADD INTERATIONS button, search for Netgear and configure the device.

Manual install

To manually install:

# Download a copy of this repository
$ wget https://github.com/rroller/netgear/archive/netgear-main.zip

# Unzip the archive
$ unzip netgear_wax-main.zip

# Move the netgear_wax directory into your custom_components directory in your Home Assistant install
$ mv netgear_wax-main/custom_components/netgear_wax <home-assistant-install-directory>/config/custom_components/

⚠️ After executing one of the above installation methods, restart Home Assistant. Also clear your browser cache before proceeding to the next step, as the integration may not be visible otherwise.

Setup

1. Now the integration is added to HACS and available in the normal HA integration installation, so...
2. In the HA left menu, click Configuration
3. Click Integrations
4. Click ADD INTEGRATION
5. Type Netgear and select it
6. Enter the details:
   1. Username: Your device username, typically admin
   2. Password: Your device password
   3. Address: Your device IP address
   4. Port: Your device port, typical 443

Known supported devices

• WAX-610
• WAX-620
• WAX-630
• WAC-510
• Probably the other WA* devices but I haven't tested them

Please let me know if you've tested with additional devices

Known issues

• Toggling wifi on/off taks about 25 seconds. During that time the switch in the UI may toggle to the original setting until the underlying call completes on the API. There's no harm but just a jaring user experience that needs to be worked out.

Preview

Entities

Switches

Switch	Description
SSID	Enables or disables a WI-FI ssid

Sensors

Sensor	Description
Update Sensor	Shows when the device has a firmware update. Checked every few hours
WLAN Channel Util	Shows how saturated the channel is
Traffic Sensor	Shows a count of bytes sent over the wlan or lan interface
Connected Clients Sensor	Shows a count of the total number of connected clients
IP Address Sensor	Shows the device IP address
MAC Sensor	Shows the device MAC

Local development

If you wish to work on this component, the easiest way is to follow HACS Dev Container README . In short:

• Install Docker
• Install Visual Studio Code
• Install the devcontainer Visual Code plugin
• Clone this repo and open it in Visual Studio Code
• View -> Command Palette. Type Tasks: Run Task and select it, then click Run Home Assistant on port 9123
• Open Home Assistant at http://localhost:9123

Debugging

Add to your configuration.yaml:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    custom_components.netgear_wax: debug