ha-glinet4-integration

A HomeAssistant custom component for GL-inet routers that uses their API version 4.

Working - in alpha, breaking changes very likely.

Contributions are welcome, for ideas see the TODO list below or the various #TODOs in the code.

Features

• Device tracker for devices connected directly or indirectly to a Gl-inet router.
  • Note, modern phones use MAC address randomisation when they connect to WiFi, you will need to disable this for your home wifi only on android and iphone
• Control all configured wireguard clients with a switch.

Installation

1. Create a new folder in config/custom_components called glinet
2. Copy manually, or clone the files in this repo into that folder git clone https://github.com/HarvsG/ha-glinet4-integration.git . (The . at the end is important)
3. Reboot homeassistant
4. Add the new Glinet integration under Devices and services
5. Edit the host path with you router IP - ensure you keep the http://
6. Add your router admin page login password (not your WIFI password). Placeholder is GL-inet's default goodlife, but this should be changed.

Dev set up

1. Set up the vscode homeassistant core dev setup

• Or you could just use a running install of homeassistant (restarts are required for a lot of changes)

2. Run once to generate directories
3. create a config/custom_components/glinet directory
4. git clone https://github.com/HarvsG/ha-glinet4-integration.git .
5. Note, the vscode git tracker will track the parent repo (ha core), but command line git will still work within the glinet dir
6. You may need to config a new ssh key inside the container. Use this - this will be overwitten if you rebuild the container

TODO

• Auto detect router IP for config flow - assume it is the default gateway, test an enpoint that doesn't require auth (/model or /hello), fallback to default 192.168.8.1
• Add switches for wireguard and open vpn (client and server), done for wireguard client, but we can probably do all programatically rather than repeating boilerplate
  • worth considering you can have multiple clients, most of the API endpoints act on the last used client config. Can we get a list from the API and create switches for all? Maybe (router/vpn/status?)
• Support HACS - lets get some more features working first
• Allow deletion of unhelpful device tracker devices/entities, docs, example
• Clean, comment and refactor code
• Add tests - will need to mock the API
• Allow reconfig for password changes - currently have to delete and re-add integration
• Look into using https instead of http
• Add features:
  • Upload/Download sensors
  • Internet reachable sensors (remember that API timesout when internet not reachable)
  • Public IP sensor
  • Diagnostic sensors for stats in (/router/status) such as uptime, LAN IP and memory useage
• Consider features
  • Making changes to the VPN client policies would be cool to automate switching on/off VPN use per device in automations. Useful for bypassing geofilters for example
  • Firmware upgrades https://dev.gl-inet.com/api/#api-firmware (should have warnings)
  • Switch for LED control https://dev.gl-inet.com/api/#api-cloud-PostLedEnable
  • Router reboot button (/router/reboot) might be useful for some automations
  • ?custom ping sensor(s)
  • Tethering controls:https://dev.gl-inet.com/api/#api-tethering
  • Modem control (useful for failover internet automations)
  • ?SMS control - maybe a notify platform see example
  • Explore using the smarthome BLE endpoints: https://dev.gl-inet.com/api/#api-SmartHome

Tested on

• Beryl MT3000
• Convexa B1300

Depends on

https://github.com/HarvsG/gli4py