Detect a new device/person on LAN and take actions

Hi Karl,
I'm a little neurotic, and I want Pushover notifications whenever a new device connects to my LAN. I'm unclear whether I would be better suited to do this on your Unifi plugin, which I also use.

I assume the best way is via 1) Trigger on "Fingscan Event" -> "New IP Device on Network"

My question is HOW do I tell what the MAC address, etc, of the new device is? It looks like it is stored in the "IP devices" folder. I've played at this for about 2 hours, sorry to bug if it's an obvious answer!

PS- I'll wash your car if you can then tell me how to do this for devices Unifi (or piBeacon) detects that are NOT on my network, because that mailman of mine is looking shifty

I'm doing it like this in the interim, not sure if it's working as it hasn't been triggered yet...

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newDevice = indigo.variables[491200589].value # "ipDevsNewIPNumber"
indigo.server.log("New Device: " + newDevice)
#New Device: ipDevice54;new-10-9C:8E:CD:0D:97:EF

newDeviceNumber = newDevice[15:17]
newDeviceMAC = newDevice[18:35]

indigo.server.log("Device Number: " + str(newDeviceNumber))
indigo.server.log("Device MAC: " + str(newDeviceMAC))


here the update command:

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indigo.variable.updateValue("ipDevsNewDeviceNo", "ipDevice"+str(newIPDevNumber)+";"+devI["deviceName"])

variable ipDevsNewDeviceNo will contain:
ipDeviceindigo.dev.number;indigo.devicename

eg "ipDevice12345;new-571"

where 12345 is the indigo device number and new-5711 is the indigo device name of the new device

AND do not use indigo variable # but indigo variable name to check. The variable gets recycled at midnight = deleted and recreated - that means it gets a new indigo #. That way the sql tables are kept smaller.

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try:
   var = indigo.devices("ipDevsNewDeviceNo").value
   var = var.split(";")
   newDeviceNumber =int( var[0].split("Device")[1])
   newDeviceName   = var[1]
except:
   newDeviceNumber =0
   newDeviceName =""
if newDeviceNumber != 0:   do your stuff

should give you the indigo device name & numbers if there is a new ip device added.

the try/ except is useful if the variable is blank or 0 (eg at creation)

hope that helps.

Karl

ps I have 2 cars

Thanks Karl,
I’ll give it a go!


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actually it is not the dev.id but the variable name eg:

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ipDevice07;new-10-00:1F:5B:30:E9:20

tried by deleting a device and it was recreated.

so the code should be

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try:
   var = indigo.devices("ipDevsNewDeviceNo").value
   var = var.split(";")
   newDeviceName   = var[1]
except:
   newDeviceName =""
if newDeviceName != "":   do your stuff

Thanks for the info Karl.
We have also a question about this issue.

Fingscan Event Trigger:
New IP Device on Network;

Actions:
email the new IP device details:
(hardware vendor, MACNumber, ipNumber)

How could we do that?

Thanks for your help!

Warm regards,

John

create trigger : new ip device on network, then in ACTIONS server script:

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# Putting a variable's data into the subject and body
ipDev = indigo.variables["ipDevsNewDeviceNo"]
ipDevVarNumber   = ipDev.value.split(";")[0]
devName = ipDev.split(";")[1]

theSubject = "new device on network " + devName
theBody = "new device on network\n"
theBody += indigo.variables["ipDevice00"].value +"\n" # this gives the headline
theBody += indigo.variables[ipDevVarNumber].value  # this writes the contents of the new variable below the header line

indigo.server.log(theBody)# also send it to the indigo log file

indigo.server.sendEmailTo("youremail@xxx.com", subject=theSubject, body=theBody)

Thanks for the fast feedback Karl! Super!

One problem (sorry):

Script Error embedded script: 'Variable' object has no attribute 'split'
Script Error Exception Traceback (most recent call shown last):

embedded script, line 4, at top level
AttributeError: 'Variable' object has no attribute 'split'

line 4:

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devName = ipDev.split(";")[1]

I think should be

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devName = ipDev.value.split(";")[1]

Yes, just typed it on my cell

indigo.variables.value gives the string.


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So i've got this so far:

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var = indigo.variables["ipDevsNewDeviceNo"].value
indigo.server.log("New Device String: " + var)
var = var.split(";")
newDeviceName = var[1]
indigo.server.log("New Device Name:  " + newDeviceName)
subvar = var[1].split("-")
newDeviceMAC = subvar[2]
indigo.server.log("New Device MAC:  " + newDeviceMAC)
newDeviceTimeUp = indigo.devices[newDeviceName].states["lastFingUp"] # State lastFingUp of newest device
indigo.server.log("New Device Time Up: " + newDeviceTimeUp)
newDeviceIP = indigo.devices[newDeviceName].states["ipNumber"] # State ipNumber of newest device
indigo.server.log("New Device IP:  " + newDeviceIP)

indigo.variable.updateValue(indigo.variables[529430126], newDeviceName) # DEVICETRACKING_fing_devicename
indigo.variable.updateValue(indigo.variables[1683113861], newDeviceMAC) # DEVICETRACKING_mac_address
indigo.variable.updateValue(indigo.variables[96904041], str(newDeviceTimeUp)) # DEVICETRACKING_last_new_up
indigo.variable.updateValue(indigo.variables[934101919], str(newDeviceIP)) # DEVICETRACKING_ipaddress


I need to test it, but my hope is this will make new devices logging into wifi push an alert to me (I use pushover, though email will be good redundancy).

Am I correct in my assumption that new guests logging into my wifi will trigger this?
Any recommendations on how best to test it? (I plan to pick out the MAC of a known device and delete it's Device created by the plugin, though I may have to delete it's Variable as well.

the script looks fine .

to your question on new MAC device if guest login:
if a new device attaches to the network and sends ANY broadcast fing(SCAN) will catch it.


Karl

Yes! It's working!

Thank you very much for the fast Service!

Is it btw possible to give each header and content a return?
So, then the text is better readable on an iPhone.

Add

+”\n”

To the end of each line you want to have an extra new line



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