Function to check internet status

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi I’m new to Hass.io. Is there a way to check internet status in Hass.io?
I want to reboot my router if Internet is not available in x minutes using a z-wave plug…

Thanks!

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You might be able to use the ping device tracker to track the router then use that to determine if the internet is available.

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This isn’t exactly what you were asking for but here is something I use. It monitors my HA instance’s website and alerts me if it goes down. Fairly close to real time.

I also have the Speedtest component that measures my connection and if it goes down will return an error of sorts:

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Thanks, I’ll see if this suits my needs :slight_smile:
About Speedtest, can this monitor internet connection in real time?

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Thanks, I tried to add a binary sensor pinging 8.8.8.8 (google’s dns) but it didn’t get positive response.

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Well I would do as I said and create a ping device tracker for the router.

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Do you know if this sensor polls constantly? Or every minute, every 5 minutes?

Edit: Never mind, I found out that the default scan interval is 5 minutes. I changed this by adding scan_interval: 5

# Ping Google 
binary_sensor:
  - platform: ping
    host: 8.8.8.8
    scan_interval: 5
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any luck in solving this?

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I’ve been using it for a month or two now. Never a problem. Set up exactly the way thorbj’s post shows.

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I am using node-red-contrib-isonline node for checking network status. It is reliable and good.
If anybody wants to look into it please use the below link

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…And suddenly it’s stopped working.

I’m getting “Entity not available: binary_sensor.internet_connection.”

And it appears to be true. I can’t find any reference to this entity.

My Configuration.yaml file contains the following, which hasn’t changed since May:

# Internet Status: ping host 8.8.8.8 with 2 packets every 60 seconds.
binary_sensor:
  - platform: ping
    host: 8.8.8.8
    count: 2
    scan_interval: 60
    name: Internet_Connection

Anyone else see this? Any idea where to look to find the problem?

I confirmed that I can ping the host 8.8.8.8 from other machines on my network, so it’s not that.

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What’s your HA version? It works as expected on 0.101.3.

… but you have updated your HA since, haven’t you? :wink:

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Yeah, and I’d made some configuration.yaml changes which inadvertently messed up the ping sensor definition. Sorry, I should have posted that. I didn’t find it for a while, so I’d sort of forgotten the post, and since nobody replied I figured it would die on its own accord.