NetOrbit 0.3.1

Changed

• Releases now carry netorbit.zip. Each release attaches the integration as a zip, and HACS and the Marketplace install from it. This gives NetOrbit a download count in both stores. The count starts with the first release that has the zip and includes updates, so it runs higher than the number of users.

NetOrbit 0.3.1b1

Pre-release to test the new install method. Take a backup first.

Changed

• Releases now carry netorbit.zip. Each release attaches the integration as a zip, and HACS and the Marketplace install from it. This gives NetOrbit a download count in both stores. The count starts with the first release that has the zip and includes updates, so it runs higher than the number of users.

NetOrbit 0.3.0

New

• Grandstream access points. NetOrbit now reads the Wi-Fi client list from Grandstream GWN access points over SNMP and places each client under the access point it's connected to. Make the access point a hub with your SNMP community set. Confirmed working on real Grandstream hardware by @fluffymadness, who also sent the request and the MIB details (#18).
• Rename a device from the card. In Edit layout, tap a device and use the Name field. Leave it empty to go back to the automatic name. Names are saved by MAC address, so they follow a device when its IP changes (#24).

Fixed

• Devices that leave now go offline even when DHCP gives their address to something else. Before, both showed green and the offline alert never fired. Thanks @ninchistudios (#47).
• Hubs given by MAC match exactly, so access points bought together with consecutive MACs aren't confused. Thanks @xlntech1 (#41).
• Mesh nodes behind an access point keep the access point's clients once you lock the node's parent. Thanks @xlntech1 (#51).
• Touching the map no longer swipes your dashboard to another view while you're zoomed in, editing or pinching. Thanks @xlntech1 (#31).
• AI assistant tools on Home Assistant 2026.10 answer in the new format, so the deprecation warning is gone. Thanks @xlntech1 (#30, #52).
• Saved videos start right away and end without a long pause (#29).

Upgrading

• Install or update through HACS (or the Marketplace on Home Assistant 2026.11), then restart Home Assistant.
• If a card shows "Custom element doesn't exist: netorbit-card" after upgrading Home Assistant, check that NetOrbit shows as loaded under Settings > Devices & services, then hard refresh the page or reopen the app. We're tracking this in #54.
• If a device left before 0.3.0 and its address has since gone to another device, it can stay online, because the #47 check needs an address saved by 0.3.0. To clear it, open the device under the integration's Configure menu and choose "Stop tracking and ignore this device", or call netorbit.ignore_device. This happens only once: devices that leave from now on go offline as #47 describes. Thanks @ninchistudios for finding this (#65).

Full details are in the CHANGELOG.

NetOrbit 0.2.10

0.2.10 is 0.2.9 plus two fixes for the scan animation, found while testing the 0.2.9 pre-release. If you're coming from 0.2.8, here's everything that's new.

Watch the first scan, share your map, zoom in, and move hubs from the card.

• First-scan animation. On a new install the card shows a radar sweeping around your router while NetOrbit scans, with a live count of what it's found. When the map arrives, hubs and devices pop in one by one. Replay it any time from the Share menu.
• Share your map. A Share button makes a PNG of the map or a short video of the scan animation. On phones it opens the share sheet. Device names are hidden by default, and IP and MAC addresses are never included. Turn the button off with show_share: false.
• Zoom and pan. Pinch, double-tap or Ctrl/Cmd+scroll to zoom, drag to look around, or use the + and - buttons. Turn it off with zoom: false. Thanks @xlntech1 (#12).
• Card height takes any CSS length, like 80vh or calc(100vh - 180px), so the map can fill a Panel view. Thanks @ninchistudios (#11).
• Move a hub under another hub. In Edit layout, tap a hub and pick what it's connected to (#20).
• Faster startup. Home Assistant no longer waits for NetOrbit's scan when it starts. The map draws from what it saved and the full scan runs in the background.

Fixed

• The radar beam in the scan reveal and Replay turns around the router again. Before, it swung around the whole card.
• Saved videos play smoothly from start to finish. Before, they could freeze about a second in and then jump ahead.
• The Home Assistant host itself now shows on the map (#10, reported by @ninchistudios). After upgrading you'll see one "new device" event for it.
• Hubs with no IP (an unmanaged switch, or an access point in bridge mode) no longer turn red a day after you add them. They take their status from the devices behind them. Thanks @ninchistudios (#22).
• Panning no longer gets stuck after you let go of the mouse outside the map, updates that arrive during a tap are drawn when you let go, and Ctrl+scroll zooms at the right speed in Firefox.

Full details in the changelog.

NetOrbit 0.2.9

Superseded by 0.2.10. Testing this pre-release turned up two bugs in the scan animation (the radar beam swung around the card, and saved videos froze then jumped). Install 0.2.10 instead; it has everything below plus those fixes.

Watch the first scan, share your map, zoom in, and move hubs from the card.

• First-scan animation. On a new install the card shows a radar sweeping around your router while NetOrbit scans, with a live count of what it's found. When the map arrives, hubs and devices pop in one by one. Replay it any time from the Share menu.
• Share your map. A Share button makes a PNG of the map or a short video of the scan animation. On phones it opens the share sheet. Device names are hidden by default, and IP and MAC addresses are never included. Turn the button off with show_share: false.
• Zoom and pan. Pinch, double-tap or Ctrl/Cmd+scroll to zoom, drag to look around, or use the + and - buttons. Turn it off with zoom: false. Thanks @xlntech1 (#12).
• Card height takes any CSS length, like 80vh or calc(100vh - 180px), so the map can fill a Panel view. Thanks @ninchistudios (#11).
• Move a hub under another hub. In Edit layout, tap a hub and pick what it's connected to (#20).
• Faster startup. Home Assistant no longer waits for NetOrbit's scan when it starts. The map draws from what it saved and the full scan runs in the background.

Fixed

• The Home Assistant host itself now shows on the map (#10, reported by @ninchistudios). After upgrading you'll see one "new device" event for it.
• Hubs with no IP (an unmanaged switch, or an access point in bridge mode) no longer turn red a day after you add them. They take their status from the devices behind them. Thanks @ninchistudios (#22).
• Panning no longer gets stuck after you let go of the mouse outside the map, updates that arrive during a tap are drawn when you let go, and Ctrl+scroll zooms at the right speed in Firefox.

Full details in the changelog.

NetOrbit 0.2.8

Internet on the map, clearer pinned devices, and fixes.

• Internet node. An Internet globe sits just above your router. It's green while public DNS servers (1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8) answer, turns red ("Internet down") when they stop answering for two ping rounds while your router still answers, and goes grey when the router isn't answering either. Comes with sensor.netorbit_internet and netorbit_internet_down / netorbit_internet_up events for automations. On by default; turn it off under Settings, or hide just the node with the card option show_internet: false.
• Pinned devices stand out. In Edit layout, devices you placed by hand fill blue and get a pin badge, while the outline keeps its status color.
• Change a hub's type from the card. In Edit layout, tap a hub and pick a Type (Switch, Access point, Mesh node or Hub).
• Fix: 0.2.7 (a pre-release) could move a wireless device to the router after a restart. Only switches plugged straight into the router count now.

Update, restart Home Assistant, then refresh your browser.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md

NetOrbit 0.2.7

Layout fixes found while testing SNMP on a real network.

• New hubs take their devices at once. Making a device a hub (or removing a hub) places the devices behind it straight away. Before, the map waited for the next network scan, up to 5 minutes.
• Devices wired to the router get placed. With SNMP, a device the switches only ever see on the port facing the router (plugged into the router itself, an unmanaged switch on it, or the router's own Wi-Fi) now shows under the router instead of staying unplaced.

Update, restart Home Assistant, then refresh your browser.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md

NetOrbit 0.2.6

Moving a device is instant.

• Instant feedback. After a drag (or Move to), the device is drawn under its new hub right away with a spinning blue "saving" ring until Home Assistant confirms. If the save fails, it goes back.
• Faster changes everywhere. Any change from the card, a service or an AI assistant redraws the map straight away from what NetOrbit already knows, then checks the network in the background. Before, every change waited for a full ping round, which takes a couple of seconds when some devices don't answer.

Update, restart Home Assistant, then refresh your browser.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md

NetOrbit 0.2.5

Drag a device onto a suggested hub to make it a hub.

• Drop on a pink ring. In Edit layout, dragging a device onto a suggested hub (the spinning pink ring) now asks "Make it a hub?" with a type picker. Say yes and NetOrbit makes it a hub and moves the device under it in one step. Before, suggested hubs ignored the drop.
• For automations: the netorbit.confirm_hub action takes an optional assign list of devices to place under the new hub.

Update, restart Home Assistant, then refresh your browser.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md

NetOrbit 0.2.4

Fixes map icons on Safari and in the iOS/iPadOS Home Assistant app.

• Icons sit in their circles on Safari and iOS. Safari drew every map icon away from its circle, so the map looked like it had a second ring of loose icons. Icons are now drawn as part of the map itself, so every browser places them the same way. Thanks to @mgeorgieff for tracking this down and fixing it in #2.
• With more than one NetOrbit card on a page (or the card editor's preview open), every card now gets its icons.

Update, restart Home Assistant, then refresh your browser.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md