DW in combination with Hubitat Ping and Web Pinger can provide good results, been playing with those earlier today to provide the status of various hubs along with web services such as Grafana...
Had a few minutes so I wrapped some driver code around the Hubitat Ping endpoint. Driver returns the data packet loss percentage, as well as the avg, max, min, and mdev statistics from the command as attributes.
As it takes a couple of seconds to run, there is also responseReady boolean that can be used as a trigger that the ping has completed.
The Ping Repeat preference allows an automatic periodic ping (defaults to zero which is disabled) - probably shouldn’t use a value lower 15 seconds to…
Introducing 'Web Pinger'
Monitor a website and trigger automations if not found or if your internet goes down.
HE introduced a built in Ping function . Instead of re-writing this app, I'm adding it in to Event Engine.
Thanks to Jason Botello for the original 2016 (ST) 'SmartPing' idea that I based this app off of.
Features:
Turns on a Switch(es) when website is not found or internet is down
Option to send Pushover and/or Flash Lights when website is not found
Option to send Pushover and/or…
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