NETGEAR LTE
The NETGEAR LTE integration 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 a number of sensors and binary sensors.
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 integration 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:
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Browse to your Home Assistant instance.
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In the bottom right corner, select the
Add Integration button. -
From the list, select NETGEAR LTE.
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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. |
Actions
Action netgear_lte.connect_lte
This action asks the modem to establish its LTE connection, useful if the modem does not autoconnect.
Data attribute | Optional | Description |
---|---|---|
host |
yes | The modem that should connect (optional when just one modem is configured). |
Action netgear_lte.disconnect_lte
This action asks the modem to close its LTE connection.
Data attribute | Optional | Description |
---|---|---|
host |
yes | The modem that should disconnect (optional when just one modem is configured). |
Action netgear_lte.delete_sms
The integration makes an action available to delete messages from the modem inbox. This can be used to clean up after incoming SMS events.
Data attribute | Optional | Description |
---|---|---|
host |
yes | The modem that should have a message deleted (optional when just one modem is configured). |
sms_id |
no | Integer or list of integers with inbox IDs of messages to delete. |
Action netgear_lte.set_option
This action can set modem configuration options (otherwise available in the modem web UI).
Data attribute | Optional | Description |
---|---|---|
host |
yes | The modem to set options on (optional when just one modem is configured). |
autoconnect |
yes | Autoconnect value: never /home /always , with home meaning “not roaming”. |
failover |
yes | Failover mode: wire (wired connection only), mobile (mobile connection only), auto (wired connection with failover to mobile connection). |
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 }}"