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pkellner
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Aug 11, 2019
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How To Get Daily Usage from ORBI with API/REST?

I want to get daily internet usage (I'd like by device but I'd take total) of interent connection. I use comcast and they cap and I need to track without having to login.

  • It is the "without login" that makes this difficult.  There is a web page that displays the current usage: htp://<ip of orbi router>/show_traffic.htm

     

    You could put a bookmark on a web browser.  If the web browser has stored the Orbi credentials, the screen will pop up.  People who enjoy programming can whip up a task that does the http, scrapes the values off the page, then "does something " with them.

     

    If someone has discovered API's for the Orbi, please share because I have never heard any mention of it.

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  • It is the "without login" that makes this difficult.  There is a web page that displays the current usage: htp://<ip of orbi router>/show_traffic.htm

     

    You could put a bookmark on a web browser.  If the web browser has stored the Orbi credentials, the screen will pop up.  People who enjoy programming can whip up a task that does the http, scrapes the values off the page, then "does something " with them.

     

    If someone has discovered API's for the Orbi, please share because I have never heard any mention of it.

      • CrimpOn's avatar
        CrimpOn
        Guru

        My assumption is that show_traffic.htm is geared directly toward "caps".  i.e. if a value is put in for usage cap, it is a matter of arithmetic.  n/30 days, I have used x/cap of data.  I think Netgear could have done the arithmetic for us and put the percentages in.

         

        Still can't get around the login, and still no direct API.