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SLK-Purdue
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Apr 21, 2020
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Orbi, SOAP, and Excel

In previous post I have tried to improved the Connected Devices display in the WebUI (added sorting) and put together an Excel spreadsheet to extract that data.  I still wanted signal information.  T...
CrimpOn's avatar
CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
May 24, 2020

This Excel sheet is amazing!  It now removes any incentive to open the Orbi "app" as the only thing the app does that the web interface does not is show the "Link Rate" and signal strength.

 

Was surprised to see the satellite signal strength on my satellite is (minus) 64, whereas all the other devices show signal strength as positive numbers. The spread sheet does not show transmit/receive speeds that I see in

satelliteinfo wifi

That data is probably not in the information SOAP returns?

 

GREAT WORK

 

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SLK-Purdue
Luminary
May 24, 2020

Thanks for the question.   I run a wired backhaul so I hadn't thought about wireless backhaul link information.   It does appear that the backhaul BHPhyTxRate and BHPhyTxRate is available via SOAP in the request GetCurrentSatellitesWIFIinfo and I would love to include that in the Excel code.   I can made that SOAP request but I am not getting complete information in the return.  It seems likely I have a syntax error somehow in the request but I am flying blind without a spec.  If anyone can point me in the right directly or if anyone at Netgear would share to spec (even if via a backdoor and I promise I won't ask questions :-) ), this could be easily included in the spreadsheet infomation.  Thanks again for the input.   

 

Wish I could have reported better results. 

 

Current version of the spreadsheet with the GetCurrentSatelliteWIFIinfo response in the breakout spreadsheets can be found at

 

    www dropbox com/s/fjqnfp0puahc604/ORBI%20Soap%20Request.xlsm?dl=0

 

Scott