So I had an incident happen while I was 400 miles away. For some reason, my google wifi router decided to flake out. Which has NEVER happened before and of course only happens when I am gone for a week. The problem WAS NOT with the internet coming into my house, just the actual google router.
Which got me thinking, “I need to plug the router into a smart outlet so I can toggle power to the outlet, thereby resetting the router”. Only problem is of course, if the router is down, my home is essentially disconnected from the internet.
Does anyone have any ideas of how I could go about resetting my router when I have no internet access? Aside from calling a neighbor and having them manually unplug the router, I cant really think of anything.
In my case, if router is down, there is no local network connection for devices connected to it, but i have other access points (unifi) working independently and they might still access locally.
So, you can have am Automation in home assistant to detect missing internet connection using ping sensor and send a command to the plug to toggle as long as you still have an active local connection independent of your router.
I didn’t mean esphome solution would not work, gave an additional option if there is an independent local network, he can rely on it to send commands to switch over ZigBee or localtuya or etc.
Another solution might be to program your switch to turn off/on once a day while your away to restart your router. It’s not ideal but it doesn’t require much work
Let me repeat my initial assumption, if your router and your local network are independent, localtuya would still work because you can still send messages to devices locally reachable. But, if your local connection is distrupted when router is down, localtuya wouldn’t work
So I understood and then I didnt so much, lol. I have no experience with Tuya.
But is localtuya a sort of wifi of its own?
So I would need an power switch that is tuya. The switch talks to my HA through localtuya (not wifi). Have HA try to ping a website and if it fails have HA send a signal to the switch over localtuya, to toggle power off and on?
I’d advise you to avoid it. There are much better wifi options that integrate locally (no cloud) without having to mess about with third party integrations like localtuya.
No it relies on your wifi.
Did you lose your local wifi network when your router had it’s little hiccup?
Yes. So I have the google wifi mesh (1 router, 2 extenders). I still had internet cause I could see in the google home app that my 2 extenders were offline. Luckily my HA blue is hardwired to my router so I still had access to HA.
I’ve been watching this post and it throws up some good problems of logic. Where to intercept that the internet going down and what to do. I would have thought that HA crashing was more likely and I have 2 separate VPNs outside HA to connect back to my network to reset HA through a Tasmota plug connected to my RPI with HA. What about the suggestion to just get a better router that is less likely to go down. I use >5 year old routers and they have not failed me yet. It’s the ISP or electricity that goes down.
But what would that automation be? As HA still had internet because its hardwired to the router, a ping of google.com would have always been succesful. To bad Google wasnt more open and I could setup an automation in HA based purely off Google home itself letting HA know that its lost wifi
