node-fritzbox

node-fritzbox

Setup your Fritz!Box from the command line. Or just use it as an API in your node project.

Warning Use this software at your own risk.

Running it in the command line

First of all, install it:

npm install node-fritzbox

Then, just use it. At the moment it is possible to:

• Obtain external IP address
• List devices (connected and disconnected)
• Get device info
• Send WOL packet to device
• List port-forwarding rules
• Enable / disable port-forwarding rules

Obtain external IP address

node-fritzbox online ip

Results in

Current online IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

List devices

node-fritzbox devices list

Results in

  [*] landevice3807 - Laptop (LAN 1 mit 1 Gbit/s) IP: 192.168.1.2 MAC: AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA
  [*] landevice3814 - Desktop (LAN 1 mit 1 Gbit/s) IP: 192.168.1.3 MAC: BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB
  [*] landevice3802 - Mobile-Phone-1 (WLAN) IP: 192.168.1.4 MAC: CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC
  [*] landevice3815 - Wireless-Speaker (WLAN) IP: 192.168.1.5 MAC: DD:DD:DD:DD:DD:DD
  [ ] landevice3806 - Other-Laptop
  [ ] landevice3818 - Mobile-Phone-2 (WLAN)

Where, in [*] landeviceXXXX - Name (Connection) IP: ... MAC: ...:

• [*] means active and [ ] means inactive/not connected
• landeviceXXXX is the device id
• Name is the device name (defined by the device)
• Connection is the connection information

Get device info

node-fritzbox devices info device_id

Results in

  Device: Laptop
  Static address: off
  Child security profile: filtprof1
  Auto Wake On LAN: off

Wake device

node-fritzbox devices wake device_id

Sends a WOL magic packet from the Fritz!Box to the device. If WOL is configured on the device, it should wake it up.

List port-forwarding rules

node-fritzbox port-forwarding list

Results in

  * active_1 - HTTP-Server (state: enabled)
  * active_2 - HTTPS-Server (state: disabled)
  * active_3 - SSH (state: enabled)

Enable port-forwarding rules

node-fritzbox port-forwarding enable active_1 active_2 ...

Enables the rules with the given ids.

Disable port-forwarding rules

node-fritzbox port-forwarding disable active_1 active_2 ...

Disables the rules with the given ids.

Setup

You can set up environment variables to change the address of Fritz!Box (in case you are not using the defaults). Optionally, you can also define the password, so that you don't have to type it all the time.

The configurable environment variables are:

• FB_HOST (optional - default: fritz.box)
• FB_PASSWORD (optional and not recommended - default: asks input)

And you should be good to go.

Tested devices

• Fritz!Box 7362 SL (Fritz!OS 06.30)

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LICENCE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Francisco Alexandre de Gouveia

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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