Configuration of network scanner in configuration.yaml don't result in a sensor

[lomtaslipptas]

I had the network scanner configured via GUI. That was smooth, but due to a lot of network devices I wanted to use to flexibility to configure the network mappings in the configuration.yaml. Therefore I deleted the existing configuration and made this entry in the configuration.yaml:
network_scanner: ip_range: "192.168.2.0/24"
Sadly that didn't lead to any entity in my home assistant instance. Can you help out what I am doing wrong?

[carharthome]

I had a similar issue. I had to remove Network Scanner from HACS. Then add the Network Scanner integration from Devices & Services.

[lomtaslipptas]

Removing and adding the plugin from HACS didn't change anything.
When adding the integration from devices and services it will ignore the Mac addresses description. This is why I wanted to add it via configuration file. I have 65 devices in my network and want to describe them properly for having some kind of good overview.

[carharthome]

My resolution may not work, obviously everyone's experiences are going to be a little different. However, I didn't add the plugin from HACS after I removed it. I removed it in my integrations, then removed it in HACS, then installed it without redownloading from HACS.

I'm not quite sure why, but my network_scanner folder in the custom_components folder remained after removing from HACS, I may or may not have edited one of the files in the folder so maybe HACS doesn't remove the folder if dates don't match? If you lose your network_scanner folder you can try installing with the manual instructions and see if it helps.

I'm pretty new to Home Assistant. but it seemed like for me, when I was adding the integration with it downloaded in HACS, it must have been doing something different than manually installing via file editor.

[kknishev]

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