Restart hub when network ping fails

[Keo]

Before I spend the time to write this app, has anyone developed a way to restart a hub after x network pings?

From time to time I need to restart my router and the WiFi dongle from hubitat does not reconnect until I restart the hub. What I want to do is to restart the hub after x attempts to ping the network gateway.

[sburke781]

In terms of pinging the gateway, these are two drivers you may be interested in:

[Release] Hubitat Ping

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…

[Deprecated] Web Pinger

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…

[Keo]

Thank you !

[sburke781]

No worries.

The rebooting link I added was not what you needed, it was a schedule-based reboot, e.g. every Friday morning, etc. You will need to find something that can either do it based off a switch or maybe a way to do it in RM, not sure... There will be a way.

[sburke781]

This might help with rebooting via RM:

Reboot Hub

If you don't have a hub login setup, you can boot via rule machine by sending an http POST to "http://your_hubitat's_ip:8080/hub/reboot" If you have a hub login setup, then just use @dman2306' Hub Rebooter app. Actually, you can use his app even if you don't have a hub login setup.

Side-note - I use the Hubitat Ping to keep an eye on my various hubs, etc, reporting their "presence" captured by the driver on one of my dashboards, using Device Watchdog to compile a single tile.

You could use the presence captured by Hubitat Ping in an RM rule to trigger the reboot when the "gateway / router" is "away".