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g1utta
Aspirant
Apr 23, 2024

Question - Monitoring Orbi Satellites uptime from Home Assistant?

Hi As title suggests, I have Home Assistant (HA) running with the Netgear integration for my RBR50 and two RBS50 Orbi Mesh network, this generally is working fine. I (and no-doubt others) occasional...
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CrimpOn
Guru
Apr 24, 2024

Both the Orbi router and satellites support an http interface which responds to queries with various information.  This is how the Orbi 'app' get the information that it displays about the system. (I believe it is based on json.  See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON )

 

The json interface has been used programmatically for several purposes.  This forum topic explains one such use:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi-WIFI-6-AX-AND-Wi-Fi-6E-AXE/access-the-list-of-attached-devices-via-URL-with-json-output/m-p/2294300 

 

Caveat: I have no experience with or understanding of Home Assistant. As far as I am aware, Netgear products have no capability specific to Home Assistant.

 

Both the Orbi router and Orbi satellites respond to ICMP ('ping'). I would guess that any satellite that "loses connection" to the router would no longer respond to ping requests.  Probably the place to start.