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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.
I'm confident that netgear wouldn't route traffic from the outside to port 172... but what I'm worried about is if my laptop connected to starbucks wifi attempted to connect to 172.. that it would broadcast my username and password of my home router. does that make sense?
I would have to see a Wireshark capture. Seems to me that there would be a connect request before Orbi asks for user name and password. If Orbi does not accept the connection, maybe no credentials are ever passed. Yet another use for the Hotspot!
Hopefully, my google extension will be out in a couple days.
Concerning security of the external link. I set up my cell phone Hot Spot, connected a laptop to it, and attempted to reach my Orbi:
- Telnet failed to connect to the public IP.
- HTTP and HTTPS failed to connect to the public IP.
- I enabled Remote Administration, which uses an https connection to mynetgear.com, and was able to connect.
(although, of course, it warned about the Orbi certificate being invalid - so sad)
My conclusion is that login credentials are not likely to be passed "in the clear" because your Chrome extension will not get connected to the Orbi public IP.