Hi there, This weekend I tried to start the monitoring task of my HA installation. I managed to have it done using uptimerobot service (the free version), as it basically keeps pinging my HA web server and checking if the front end is alive. It is working, but there are 2 things I dont like on thi…

Sounds sort of like a “Dead Man’s Switch”. An interesting approach; the only problem I could see is that the added steps in communication - HA to Switch, Switch to IFTTT, IFTTT to phone could be interrupted at any one point and cause the others to fail. But I think communication failure is a ris…

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Wouldn’t just using a system-D service to monitor HA be enough?

Or you could do like me and run the free version of Paessler PRTG to monitor everything in my network and trigger emails or script actions if something goes down. 100 sensors in the free version covers pretty much everything from my firewall, my switch to my servers in my home network. …

How about using the watchdog service of the system running home-assistant? the RPI has one and i guess most embedded systems have a watchdog…

Did any use PRTG integrated in HA?

Also interested on monitoring HA in PRTG and show PRTG faults on HA. Anyone doing this?

After i put my unify controller in hassio, i monitor everything directly in hassio. The more advanced alerts are not supported, but ping for me is ok.

I’ve managed to use REST api from PRTG to get alerts in HA, not perfect, but works great.

Can you please share how you did that? I want to sent PRTG notifications from HA to Alexa via node-red

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fabaff (Fabian Affolter) August 31, 2016, 5:13am 3

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