When I was looking for a way to check if my (internally) hosted webservices were running fine or not I could not really find anything suitable. Most people seem to use external services (does not work for internal websites) or ping/rest/scrape solutions, but I found those a bit annoying to setup, so I made this integration.
You provide a list of URLs to check and it will expose each of those as a “problem” sensor.
For the most recent documentation checkout the in the linked repository
Example configuration.yaml:
websitechecker:
update_interval: 10 # Optional, value in minutes, defaults to 10
websites:
- url: https://example.com
name: Optional friendly name
update_interval: 5 # Optional, main `update_interval` used when not provided
verify_ssl: false # Optional, default is true
- url: http://does_not_exist.com
No there is currently no option to change the scan interval.
Feel free to submit an issue as a reminder (or even better a PR), no promises on me working on it any time soon though.
@blair.ogilvie1 until @Michel updates the component, you can simply edit the binary_sensor.yaml file and change the interval there, then restart HA and it’ll be as you want:
SCAN_INTERVAL = timedelta(minutes=10)
You could also add additional logic to specify the sensor limit on each entry if you are familiar with Python and the HA model.
You could create a sensor for each site and then use a template sensor or an average/sum sensor to give you an indication if any of the sites are down rather than one-by-one.
You could make a group helper sensor. When one (or more) of the sensors in the group is on the group sensor will be on. You could then trigger automations on that.
You might get more response in other sections of the forum as it is basically a more general automation question.
This component is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
There are two features that (for me at least) would make this perfect: 1) exposing the URL in the sensor attributes (apologies if this is doable with unique_id… i just don’t know how) 2) allowing users to add an optional icon for each sensor
After struggling with a way to detect when my internet goes down (ISP outage) I was finally able to get it working with your component easily. I just put my ping url from healthchecks.io in and BAM worked great.
