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NETGEAR LTE

The NETGEAR LTE integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] for Home Assistant allows you to observe and control NETGEAR LTE modems.

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

  • Notifications
  • Sensors
  • Binary sensors

The integration supports sending notifications with SMS, reporting incoming SMS with events and reporting the modem and connection state in several sensors and binary sensors.

Note

Splitting of long SMS messages is not supported so notifications can contain a maximum of 70 characters. Simple messages using the reduced GSM-7 alphabet can contain up to 160 characters. Most emojis are not supported.

Configuration

To add the NETGEAR LTE device to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select NETGEAR LTE.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Notification Actions

The integration will create a notify actions matching the name of the integration entry. This is the model name of the device by default.

Events

Event netgear_lte_sms

Messages arriving in the modem inbox are sent as events of type netgear_lte_sms with the following content.

Event data attribute Description
host The modem that received the message.
sms_id The inbox ID of the received message.
from The sender of the message.
message The SMS message content.

List of actions

The NETGEAR LTE integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] provides the following actions. Each link below opens a dedicated page with examples, parameters, and a step-by-step UI walkthrough.

  • Connect LTE (netgear_lte.connect_lte) Asks the NETGEAR LTE modem to establish its LTE connection.

  • Delete SMS (netgear_lte.delete_sms) Deletes messages from the NETGEAR LTE modem inbox.

  • Disconnect LTE (netgear_lte.disconnect_lte) Asks the NETGEAR LTE modem to close its LTE connection.

  • Set option (netgear_lte.set_option) Sets connection options on the NETGEAR LTE modem.

For an overview of every action across all integrations, see the actions reference.

Examples

The following automation example processes incoming SMS messages with the Conversation integration and then deletes the message from the inbox.

automation:
  - alias: "SMS conversation"
    triggers:
      - trigger: event
        event_type: netgear_lte_sms
    actions:
      - action: conversation.process
        data:
          text: "{{ trigger.event.data.message }}"
      - action: netgear_lte.delete_sms
        data:
          host: "{{ trigger.event.data.host }}"
          sms_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.sms_id }}"