Monitor HA server availability

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Hello,

Does anybody know a way to monitor if HA is available from internet (outside home)?
I would like to receive a message (email, pushbullet, MQTT, etc.) when the server is not reachable (power/internet outage at home).

Does anybody know if such service exist somewhere?

Thank you.

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Check this out Alfredo. This looks like an easy do it yourself method.

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Heh, that looks pretty cool - think I’ll give it a try as well :slight_smile:

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I think I owed you one. :smile:

Apparently they upgraded it and the new link is here

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We’re even now - who’s going to help who next ???

Actually I also owe you for the glances thing - hadn’t heard of it until you mentioned it now I have it on 2 PIs :slight_smile:

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Thank you! I think that this is what I was looking for :slight_smile:

I will try it right now.

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I have to check this again; I set everything up according to the directions and it said it was initialized but this morning I don’t see any entries in it. I must have done something wrong. If either of you get this working let me know.

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It is working for me. You don’t see any entry until the first “System Down”.
Try to stop HA and wait. After 5-10 minutes you should receive the email and one entry is done on the excel table. Unfortunately the SMS is not available any more on the free Google calendar accounts.

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I’m wondering if it is possible to view the Google script code… During the activation, you are giving permissions to the script to do quite a lot of things with your Google account. (like sending emails on your behalf, modify your calendar, etc…)

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Ah, that’s why I’m seeing nothing. So it only puts in a log entry when something is actually unreachable. That makes sense. Thanks, Alfredo!

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What URL do you use outside of your local network?

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I use no-ip.org as a dynamic DNS provider, so I use the domain name I set up there.

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uptime robot is supposed to be good

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Thank you callmebot. It seems to be what I was looking for :+1:

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I use uptime robot which sends a message to my telegram client.

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I’ve recently run up an instance of StatPing on a $5/m DigitalOcean instance - it has a web interface, but more importantly alerts via Slack

I cant remember where I found StatPing - it was either here or on reddit

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I second Statping. It is an outstanding tool. It’s free and ships with a free app up to I think 10 services! It also has an API which I would love to some day see implemented into HA.

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I use Freshping.io and Uptimerobot.com. Both tools support Telegram Phone Calls throuh callmebot.com
So when my HA server is going down, I receive a nice phone call on my mobile. And everything is free for personal usage. :star_struck:

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