Feature request : add LTE status sensors

[Koknico]

I have a Archer MR600 router and it would be great to have LTE status informations to check 4G connection status.

Sometimes the router lost 4G network connection so Home Assistant (and all my others connected devices) becomes unavailable from outside (when I am gone for some days otherwise it's not funny ...).

I want to create an automation to reboot the box when it is disconnected.

LTE status seems to be available in your API with get_lte_status

Thanks !!

[muibeta]

I have an Archer MR600 setup of as a backup for my main cable internet connection. It is on a limited data plan. Charges for exceeding the plan are very high. It would be great if I could build an automation that warns me that 4G has activated and I can investigate what went wrong with the main cable internet connection before my plan's data is used up.

[teixeluis]

Same here. I have the TL-MR105, and no LTE status information is currently provided by the integration. I can see that the base library (tplinkrouterc6u) has work done for dealing with the LTE status API (e.g. the already mentioned get_lte_status() function from the lib, but curious to learn what is still missing for integrating that part.

[teixeluis]

I have an Archer MR600 setup of as a backup for my main cable internet connection. It is on a limited data plan. Charges for exceeding the plan are very high. It would be great if I could build an automation that warns me that 4G has activated and I can investigate what went wrong with the main cable internet connection before my plan's data is used up.

I have a similar setup with the TL-MR105. My main internet access comes from Starlink, but in case it fails I switch to this LTE modem. For failing over beteween the two I use a OpenWRT router with the multiwan package, and have a script that captures the mwan events, notifying via MQTT when a failover to LTE occurs.

Still it would be very interesting to be able to monitor LTE data usage and signal strengths.

[AlexandrErohin]

LTE sensors are added. Please try the latest integration version

[teixeluis]

This PR includes some improvements in the reported values:

#244