devolo Home Network

The devolo Home Network integration allows you to monitor your PLC network.

Configuration

Adding devolo Home Network to your Home Assistant instance can be done via the user interface, by using this My button:

devolo Home Network can be auto-discovered by Home Assistant. If an instance was found, it will be shown as “Discovered”, which you can select to set it up right away.

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

Presence Detection

• Detect presence of devices connected to the main or the guest wifi
  • Updates every 10 seconds
  • Automatically adds new devices as disabled entities unless disabled via system option

Sensors

• Number of connected wifi clients
  • Updates every 10 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

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 next
• Magic 2 WiFi 2-1
• Magic 1 WiFi mini
• Magic 1 WiFi 2-1
• 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