Home Hub CLI

A CLI that can interact with BT Home Hub routers.

Useful for performing quick reboots or for pulling statistics from the Home Hub.

Usage

Using the CLI

Download one of the releases for your operating system. Please read the release notes to ensure it's compatible with your Home Hub firmware version. Or refer to the compatibility matrix.

For *nix and OS X:

./homehub-cli

For Windows:

homehub-cli.exe

Pressing the TAB key shows all of the available commands. You can get help for specific commands by doing:

CommandName --help

Running indivdual commands

You can run indivdual commands outside of the CLI shell by specifying the desired function to execute, together with the Home Hub authentication details.

./homehub-cli Reboot --huburl=http://192.168.1.254 --username=admin --password=secret

If the command requires arguments, you can pass them along like this.

./homehub-cli WiFiFrequency24GhzChannelSet 6 --huburl=http://192.168.1.254 --username=admin --password=secret

The huburl and username arguments are defaulted to the standard Home Hub IP address and admin user name. So you can omit these arguments if you want to and just specify the password.

See ./homehub-cli --help for all options.

Docker image

You can run the CLI within a Docker container:

docker run -ti --rm jamesnetherton/homehub-cli

To run a specific command:

docker run -ti --rm jamesnetherton/homehub-cli About --password=secret

If you need to override the hub url or username arguments, simply add them to 'docker run' command:

docker run -ti --rm jamesnetherton/homehub-cli About --huburl=http://192.168.1.254 --username=admin --password=secret

Troubleshooting

Compatible firmware versions

First check that the CLI is compatible with your router hardware. You can run the About command to see which firmware version the homehub-cli was tested and verified against.

Enable debug logging

You can enable debugging within the CLI via the EnableDebug command.

To enable debugging:

EnableDebug true

To disable debugging:

EnableDebug false

With debugging enabled, you'll see HTTP requests and responses being output whenever commands are executed.

Building

This project uses go modules. Ensure that you're using a compatible go version in order to build the project.

git clone git@github.com:jamesnetherton/homehub-cli.git
make build

Generated binaries are output to the build directory.