devolo Home Network
The devolo Home Network integration allows you to monitor your PLC network.
Configuration
To add the devolo Home Network integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:
devolo Home Network can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as Discovered. You can then set it up right away.
If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.
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From the list, select devolo Home Network.
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Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.
Device types
Currently the following device types within Home Assistant are supported.
Binary sensors
- Device attached to the router
- Updates every 5 minutes
- Is disabled by default because it typically rarely changes
Buttons
- Identify a PLC device by making its LED blink for 2 minutes
- Start pairing on a PLC device
- Restart the device
- Start WPS
Images
- QR code of your guest wifi credentials
- Updates every 15 seconds if changes are detected
- Is enabled by default
Presence detection
- Detect presence of devices connected to the main or the guest wifi
- Updates every 15 seconds
- Automatically adds new devices as disabled entities unless disabled via system option
Sensors
- Number of connected wifi clients
- Updates every 15 seconds
- Is enabled by default
- Number of neighbored wifi networks
- Updates every 5 minutes
- Is disabled by default because it runs quite long
- Number of PLC devices in the same PLC network
- Updates every 5 minutes
- Is disabled by default because it typically rarely changes
Switch
- Turn on/off guest wifi
- Is enabled by default
- Turn on/off the device LEDs
- Is enabled by default
Update
- Update the firmware of a device.
- Is enabled by default but will only give a result if regular checks are enabled on the device.
Supported devolo Devices
The list of supported devolo devices depends on the device firmware and the device features. The following devices were tested running firmware 5.6.0:
- Magic 2 WiFi 6
- Magic 2 WiFi next
- Magic 2 WiFi 2-1
- Magic 1 WiFi mini
- Magic 1 WiFi 2-1
- WiFi 6 Repeater 5400
- WiFi 6 Repeater 3000
- WiFi Repeater+ ac
- dLAN 1200+ WiFi ac
- dLAN 550+ Wifi
- dLAN 550 WiFi
Since firmware 7.10 also the following device without Wifi can be used as long as the corresponding entities are supported:
- Magic 2 LAN triple
- Magic 2 DinRail
- Magic 2 LAN 1-1
- Magic 1 LAN 1-1