Rule 5.1: Added Ping action

damianm · October 21, 2021, 7:33am

@bravenel
New App Features

Rule 5.1: Added Ping action. This pings an IP address 3 times, and returns a string with the results. The string is in %text%. It also places the packetLoss value in %value% (100 means no response).

Love the new feature. What is the best way to dissect the text response?

cgmckeever · December 27, 2021, 8:17pm

@damianm I seem to only find your post on this

Im trying to use the ping to poll another local-lan server for healthcheck. How exactly does one use the %value% returned in a Rule? I tried setting a a local variable and also a condition around the ping .. neither seemed useful. I think Im missing something

cgmckeever · December 27, 2021, 8:22pm

Looks like I can use the value in a message .. any way to use the value as part of a condition?

damianm · December 28, 2021, 4:26am

Here is how I use it.

You need to copy value into a local variable so it can be used in conditionals.

cgmckeever · December 28, 2021, 4:38am

uuuhhh ... that set function is clutch ,,, thanks!!!