Hass.io Access Point

Use your hass.io host as a WiFi access point - perfect for off-grid and security focused installations.

Main features

• Create a WiFi access point with built-in (Raspberry Pi) or external WiFi (USB) cards (using hostapd)
• Hidden or visible SSIDs
• DHCP server (using dnsmasq)
• MAC address filtering (allow/deny)

Installation

Please add https://github.com/mattlongman/hassio-access-point to your hass.io addon repositories list. If you're not sure how, see instructions on the Home Assistant website.

Config

Options

• ssid (required): The name of your access point
• wpa_passphrase (required): The passkey for your access point
• channel (required): The WiFi channel to use
• address (required): The address of your hass.io WiFi card/network
• netmask (required): Subnet mask of the network
• broadcast (required): Broadcast address of the network
• interface (optional): Which wlan card to use. Default: wlan0
• hide_ssid (optional): Whether SSID is visible or hidden. 0 = visible, 1 = hidden. Defaults to visible
• dhcp (optional): Enable or disable DHCP server. 0 = disable, 1 = enable. Defaults to disabled
• dhcp_start_addr (optional): Start address for DHCP range. Required if DHCP enabled
• dhcp_end_addr (optional): End address for DHCP range. Required if DHCP enabled
• allow_mac_addresses (optional): List of MAC addresses to allow. Note: if using allow, blocks everything not in list
• deny_mac_addresses (optional): List of MAC addresses to block. Note: if using deny, allows everything not in list
• debug (optional): Set logging level. 0 = basic output, 1 = show addon detail, 2 = same as 1 plus run hostapd in debug mode
• hostapd_config_override (optional): List of hostapd config options to add to hostapd.conf (can be used to override existing options)

Note: use either allow or deny lists for MAC filtering. If using allow, deny will be ignored.

Example configuration

    "ssid": "AP-NAME",
    "wpa_passphrase": "AP-PASSWORD",
    "channel": "6",
    "address": "192.168.10.1",
    "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
    "broadcast": "192.168.10.255",
    "interface": "wlan0",
    "hide_ssid": "1",
    "dhcp": "1",
    "dhcp_start_addr": "192.168.10.10",
    "dhcp_end_addr": "192.168.10.20",
    "allow_mac_addresses": [],
    "deny_mac_addresses": ['ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ba'],
    "debug": "0",
    "hostapd_config_override": []

Note: This project was forked from https://github.com/davidramosweb/hassio-addons. I've submitted a lot of the functionality of this project back as a PR, but some of the extra stuff is outside the scope of a hostapd addon, so I'll leave it here for now as a more expandable hass.io access point addon.