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Hey all, I have this router paired with a three sim. My contract is nearing its end and need advice on whether anyone has experience in using a Vodafone or ID mobile sim in the router. I mean the speeds are faster when it works than normal fibre so I don't see the point going back. I've had some drop outs and slow speeds recently but overall fine.

Is there a more up to date firmware than V1.00(ACBJ.0)b15?
 
Hey all, I have this router paired with a three sim. My contract is nearing its end and need advice on whether anyone has experience in using a Vodafone or ID mobile sim in the router. I mean the speeds are faster when it works than normal fibre so I don't see the point going back. I've had some drop outs and slow speeds recently but overall fine.

Is there a more up to date firmware than V1.00(ACBJ.0)b15?
Hi nd0, welcome along to the forums. :)

I have used all 4 network SIM's in the router just fine, you may have to edit the relevant APN's, as sometimes the router doesn't always add it correctly, this is very easy to do though.

V1.00(ACBJ.0)b15 is still the most up to date firmware.(y)
 
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I presume that's the firmware for the NR5103e and not the NR5103ev2, because my ev2 is on V1.00(ACIR.0)C0 ?

Can I ask the knowledgeable folks here about this issue (on the ev2) with Passthrough mode whereby it reports the WAN interface on the device is allocated a 'private' IP ? I use my Three branded NR5103ev2 (on Vodafone) in Passthrough mode connected to a TP-Link Deco S7 Mesh router & my ev2 'Cellular Info' reports:

Mode: IP Passthrough Mode
IP Address: 10.6.66.165
Primary DNS server: 192.168.253.51
Access Technology: LTE-A

I've read various posts about resolving this by switching off Passthrough, WiFi on, reboot with cable out, connect to WiFi, Passthrough on, cable in, WiFi off.

I've never quite got this convoluted procedure to work, but why does a 'private' IP matter, because my 4G+ connection seems to work fine as it is (20-100Mbps download). I've no 5G signal in the area.
 
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So I am planning to buy a PoE camera along with a PoE Injector or switch. Turns out this router has PoE support.


Has anyone tried a PoE camera powering from the router?
 
Does anyone have any experience of using Home Assistant?

I want to be able to get some data from my NR5103ev2 into Home Assistant (eg. RSSI, SINR etc), so I can then put it on a chart.

I initially tried using the Home Assistant Scrape integration, which is quite simple to set up and configure to 'scrape' values from web pages into a Home Assistant sensor entity. However, it wouldn't work on my NR5103ev2, I suspect because of the Login Form which Zyxel requires before you can view or change any router config.

I then tried the Home Assistant Multiscrape AddOn which is similar to the standard Scrape integration, but also includes a Login Form feature to submit a username/password before scraping values from the web page. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get this to work.

I've noticed the NR5103ev2 has port 1883 open which is used for MQTT. Does anyone know of a way to use my Home Assistant MQTT Broker to get data from the NR5103ev2?

I've also seen suggestion of using a 'headless browser' in Home Assistant, but not sure how that would work.

Does anyone have any ideas/clues/suggestions for getting data (RSSI etc) out of the NR5103ev2 and ideally into Home Assistant?
 
With my Three branded NR5103ev2, i discovered if you go Maintenance > Remote Management > MGMT Services and then switch on SSH, you can then ssh to the router using:

ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa admin@192.168.8.1 (or whatever your router IP address is)

If you then type ? it gives you a collection of commands you can use:

cfg - DAL command line interface
dns - ZYXEL command line
ethwanctl - ZYXEL command line
exit - Close an active terminal session
history - Display or clear CLI history
ifconfig - Show network interface configuration
ping - Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts
pppoectl - ZYXEL command line
sys - ZYXEL command line
tcpdump - Text based packet capture utility
traceroute - monitor each routed node during whole routing path to <host>
voicedbgcli - ZYXEL command line
wan - ZYXEL command line
wlan - ZYXEL command line
zycli - ZYXEL command line

My question is, doesn't anyone know which of this lot would I be able to use to retrieve RSSI, SINR etc?

NOTE: There seems to be some commands among the above lot that may do some significant damage to your router - if you brick it, its got nothing to do with me!
 
Whilst SSH into my NR5103ev2, i seem to have enabled TELNET for the LAN using:

zycli mgmtsrvctl config -s TELNET 0

but i've no idea how to disable it - does anyone know?

(UPDATE: I couldn't Telnet to it anyway, so i guess it doesn't actually work anyway - perhaps Three/Zyxel removed that from their firmware??)
 
Does anyone have any experience of using Home Assistant?

I want to be able to get some data from my NR5103ev2 into Home Assistant (eg. RSSI, SINR etc), so I can then put it on a chart.

I initially tried using the Home Assistant Scrape integration, which is quite simple to set up and configure to 'scrape' values from web pages into a Home Assistant sensor entity. However, it wouldn't work on my NR5103ev2, I suspect because of the Login Form which Zyxel requires before you can view or change any router config.

I then tried the Home Assistant Multiscrape AddOn which is similar to the standard Scrape integration, but also includes a Login Form feature to submit a username/password before scraping values from the web page. Unfortunately, I just couldn't get this to work.

I've noticed the NR5103ev2 has port 1883 open which is used for MQTT. Does anyone know of a way to use my Home Assistant MQTT Broker to get data from the NR5103ev2?

I've also seen suggestion of using a 'headless browser' in Home Assistant, but not sure how that would work.

Does anyone have any ideas/clues/suggestions for getting data (RSSI etc) out of the NR5103ev2 and ideally into Home Assistant?

You could try MioNonno's Zyxel Hack, which is explained here (in Italian, granted, but the AutoTranslate works well enough to follow his procedure):


The hack is basically a bookmark for Chrome-based browsers that points at a wodge of javascript - linked in the description - which produces a graphical representation (with numerical values) of the parameters you're after.

Never know - it might work for you...
 
cfg cellwan_status get

the commands auto-complete, also you can stick a "?" on the end to get options
like "cfg cellwan_status ?"
I don't know if it applies to the V2 (or is important for you/others) but for the original nr5103e (v1?) the cellwan_status output doesn't include some minor items which are included in the UI/UI response; 4G/5G RSSI, the current 'preferred bands' (i.e. the current band lock config) and the actual DL/UL MHz bandwidths. It also doesn't have current Wan IP, though you can get that from wan showdefault.

As I wanted to log as much as I could (for me, an influxdb instance, not HA) I chose the python script route using urllib3 and am scraping the the data from the /cgi-bin/DAL?oid=cardpage_status web response. If the things above can be found in the ssh responses somewhere I'd happily be educated and look to switch over!
 
As I wanted to log as much as I could (for me, an influxdb instance, not HA) I chose the python script route using urllib3 and am scraping the the data from the /cgi-bin/DAL?oid=cardpage_status web response.
That sounds interesting, but python & the like is beyond my skill level unfortunately.

I looked at the NR5103ev2 syslog function, only to discover that it doesn't work either (the only thing it'll send to a Remote Syslog server, is some UPNP stuff). I can get Syslog to generate local .gz/.tar files full of logs, but I decided that was more effort than it's worth.
 
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