Groups of connected devices (tags?)

[vmakeev]

In #3, it was proposed to add sensors for the number of devices connected to the guest network.

Unfortunately, Huawei routers allow guest devices to connect only to the primary router, and not to the entire mesh network,
which makes it impossible to create triggers for the number of guest devices outside the coverage area of ​​the primary router (because guest devices will simply not connect to the network).

Perhaps an alternative would be to create device groups at the component level.

Group name	Devices in the group
home_owners	Michael's phone, Michael's laptop
visitors	Victoria's phone, Eugene's phone

• Michael's phone is connected to the "Garage" router
• Michael's laptop is connected to the "Living room" router
• Victoria's phone is connected to the "Living room" router
• Eugene's phone is connected to the "primary" router

In this scenario, the sensors for the number of connected devices will provide the following attributes:

Sensor	Attributes and values
sensor.huawei_mesh_3_clients_garage	guest_clients: 0 hilink_clients: 0 wireless_clients: 1 lan_clients: 0 wifi_2_4_clients: 0 wifi_5_clients: 1 group_home_owners_clients: 1 // Michael's phone group_visitors_clients: 0
sensor.huawei_mesh_3_clients_living_room	guest_clients: 0 hilink_clients: 0 wireless_clients: 2 lan_clients: 0 wifi_2_4_clients: 0 wifi_5_clients: 2 group_home_owners_clients: 1 // Michael's laptop group_visitors_clients: 1 // Victoria's phone
sensor.huawei_mesh_3_clients_primary_router	guest_clients: 0 hilink_clients: 2 wireless_clients: 3 lan_clients: 0 wifi_2_4_clients: 0 wifi_5_clients: 3 group_home_owners_clients: 0 group_visitors_clients: 1 // Eugene's phone

The list of groups and the mapping of MAC addresses of devices to specific groups should be placed in the component's settings.

The same device can appear in several groups (or should we call them tags?).

[vmakeev]

@CosticaPuntaru something like this might be useful in your automations?

[CosticaPuntaru]

yes, the guest_clients is exactly what i wanted, but unfortunately, the Huawei guest does not span over the entire mesh, using the guest network is impractical for my home, lets hope pressure will make Huawei fix this issue in a software update

[vmakeev]

Implemented at https://github.com/vmakeev/huawei_mesh_router/releases/tag/v0.7.4