pyNetgear

pyNetgear provides an easy to use Python API to control your Netgear router. It uses the SOAP-api on modern Netgear routers to communicate. It is built by reverse engineering the requests made by the NETGEAR Genie app.

pyNetgear works with Python 2 and 3.

If you are connected to the network of the Netgear router, a host is optional. If you are connected via a wired connection to the Netgear router, a password is optional. The username defaults to admin. The port defaults to 5000

It currently supports the following operations:

login
Logs in to the router. Will return True or False to indicate success.

get_attached_devices
Returns a list of named tuples describing the device signal, ip, name, mac, type and link_rate.

Installation

You can install PyNetgear from PyPi using pip3 install pynetgear (use pip if you're still using Python 2).

Usage

To test run from the console: $ python -m pynetgear [<pass>] [<host>] [<user>] [<port>]

To use within your Python scripts:

# All four parameters are optional
netgear = Netgear(password, host, username, port)

for i in netgear.get_attached_devices():
    print i

Supported routers

It has been tested with the Netgear R6300 router and the Netgear WNDR4500 router. According to the NETGEAR Genie app description, the following routers should work:

• Netgear R7000
• Netgear R6300
• Netgear R6250
• Netgear R6200
• Netgear R6100
• Netgear Centria (WNDR4700, WND4720)
• Netgear WNDR4500
• Netgear WNDR4300
• Netgear WNDR4000
• Netgear WNDR3800
• Netgear WNDR3700v3
• Netgear WNDR3400v2
• Netgear WNR3500Lv2
• Netgear WNR2200
• Netgear WNR2000v3
• Netgear WNR2000v4 (Port 80)
• Netgear WNR1500
• Netgear WNR1000v2
• Netgear WNR1000v3
• Netgear WNDRMAC
• Netgear WNR612v2