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devolo Home Network

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

Configuration

To add the devolo Home Network device 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.

Manual configuration steps

If it wasn’t discovered automatically, don’t worry! You can set up a manual integration entry:

  • 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 devolo Home Network.

  • 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 Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi
    • Updates every 15 seconds
    • Automatically adds new devices as disabled entities unless disabled via system option

Sensors

  • Number of connected Wi-Fi clients
    • Updates every 15 seconds
    • Is enabled by default
  • Number of neighbored Wi-Fi 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
  • PLC PHY rates
    • Updates every 5 minutes
    • PHY rates to/from the device attached to the router are enabled by default. PHY rates between all other devices are disabled by default.
  • Last restart of the device
    • Updates every 15 seconds
    • Is disabled by default because it’s of lower interest to most users.

Switch

  • Turn on/off guest Wi-Fi
    • 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 Wi-Fi 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