I have written this pice of code to let me know when there is a new firmware upgrade of my router. This should work on most of the ASUS Routers. I’ve tested only on RT-AX86U. I’ve scheduled this from my PC to run once a day.
I’m using Pushover to get the notifications on my Iphone, but you could use any method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
import paramiko\nimport http.client\nimport urllib\n\n# RT-AX86U\ndef sendnotification(MyTitle):\n conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection(\"api.pushover.net:443\")\n conn.request(\n \"POST\",\n \"\/1\/messages.json\",\n urllib.parse.urlencode(\n {\n \"token\": \"<put your token here>\",\n \"user\": \"<your username here>\",\n \"message\": \"Firmware Update \" + MyTitle,\n }\n ),\n {\"Content-type\": \"application\/x-www-form-urlencoded\"},\n )\n conn.getresponse()\n\n\ndef ssh_get_fw(version_type):\n\n # SSH connection parameters\n hostname = \"<HOST IP>\"\n port = 22\n username = \"<USERNAME>\"\n password = \"<PASSWORD>\"\n\n # Create an SSH client\n client = paramiko.SSHClient()\n client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())\n\n try:\n # Connect to the router\n client.connect(\n hostname, port=port, username=username, password=password, timeout=10\n )\n\n # Execute the command\n stdin, stdout, stderr = client.exec_command(version_type)\n\n # Read the output\n firmware_version = stdout.read().decode().strip().replace(\"_\", \"\")\n\n except paramiko.AuthenticationException:\n print(\"Authentication failed. Please check your username and password.\")\n except paramiko.SSHException as e:\n print(\"SSH connection failed:\", str(e))\n finally:\n # Close the SSH connection\n client.close()\n return firmware_version\n\n\n# The webs_state_info will change once the router goes off and does it check\nmerlin_version = ssh_get_fw(\"nvram get webs_state_info\")[4:]\nbuild_version = ssh_get_fw(\"nvram get buildno\").replace(\".\", \"\")\nextend_no = ssh_get_fw(\" nvram get extendno\")\n\nresult = int(str(build_version) + str(extend_no))\nprint(f\"Merlins Web version is {merlin_version}\")\n\nprint(f\"current firmware version is {result}\")\nif int(merlin_version) > result:\n print(\"please update the firmware\")\n sendnotification(result)\nelse:\n print(\"Nothing to update\")\n sendnotification(\"Nothing to update\")\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have written this pice of code to let me know when there is a new firmware upgrade of my router. This should work on most of the ASUS Routers. I’ve tested only on RT-AX86U. I’ve scheduled this from my PC to run once a day. I’m using Pushover to get the notifications on my … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrmarkyoung.com\/oracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}