Was on a trip this week and my USG “crashed” causing chaos on my home network.
Upon returning I was able to ping the USG (after assigning my machine a static IP) but not SSH to it.
The router is now plugged in to a zwave controller power outlet.
Looking for ideas to reliably detect (from Indigo) when the router is down (but it will still respond to pings so that won’t work).
If SSH to the router fails to connect, I can assume the router is down and start a timer. If SSH still can’t connect after X minutes, power cycle the zwave switch. Or if the controller pushes a “USG Disconnected” message.
Will this plugin log an event that I can trigger from if SS( fails to connect (or more importantly, reconnect)? Or can I use controller alerts as triggers in Indigo with this plugin?
Other ideas?
Was also thinking about just a ping to google or yahoo.com and I feel those failed, assume the router is down.