Can Companion App Notify on lost connection?

Mobile Apps
1

Can the companion app (android) pop a notification on my phone that it has lost connection my HA server?

I’m looking for a feature that could let me know my HA server is unavailable. This could let me know if my home Internet or power is down.

2

For internet outages I use the Healthchecks.io integration.

Basically, HA pings healthchecks.io every few minutes and if they don’t hear from it for a set period they send you an email. It’s free.

For power outages (which of course get picked up by healthchecks anyway) I have an old phone left on charge. If the power stops, it sends me an SMS - you can do it with apps like Llamalab or Tasker, doesn’t have to be integrated with HA.

3

My HA and internet router are powered through an UPS, and HA will notify when the UPS kicks in.

If HA is down I can SSH into my router and do some checks from there.

And if internet is down…well it’s down…not much I can do about that :woozy_face:

4

Thats my reason for buying my Green, and a Combined/LTE-Router :wink: … however i haven’t “Finished” this project, No UPS, and the Green is a mess :joy:

5

I have an LTE router - they go down like everything else… :roll_eyes:

6

I would say, if you have a fiber connection ( To your main-router + a fail-over to an LTE, on UPS, You are pretty good “Covered”

Everything will Go Down eventually, The Sun is “said” to go down everyday ( which it actually doesn’t ) But eventually it will stop “Shining”

7

Thanks for the tips and interesting solutions here, and healthchecks.io looks fairly simple to set up. All I really want is for my phone to notify me if the app has lost connection. Seems like that capability could be built into the companion app. Might be a nice feature.

8

Sure it could be a “feature in the App Settings”
, but if you open your app and try to access your HA, which is down or out of reach do to your home-line is down, you are “noticed” , on the other hand if the app can’t reach your ha, do to your phone can’t connect to internet either. etc , so there can “a few” reasons for you/your phone are not able to contact your HA, im pretty sure you won’t have such “Message” popping up EveryTime your phone/phone app, can’t connect to the internet

9

I’m fairly certain this is the reason it’s not there. It would bark every single time your phone lost connection whereas you only really need to know if the house stopped.

Also many many others. (me included) hate pop-ups. And really don’t want to be notified on something I’ll find out later anyway when I open the app.

10

You seem to be talking about 2 different issues for getting a notification:

  1. if your companion app loses the connection
  2. if your server/internet connection goes down

Of course if 2) happens 1) will follow and to me, the most logical thing would be to monitor 2) and I don’t want that in my companion app.

If you have a fixed IP at home you could use that to monitor, otherwise with some DDNS service and either a free cloud service or a self-hosting app on a friends/family’s place can inform you if your internet goes down.