Monitor Telstra Arcadyan LH1000 monitor link type

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Just want to share something that might help another Australian user.

I have a fibre to the premises broadband connection with a telstra provided Arcadyan LH1000 “smartmodem”. The modem fails over to 4G if the fibre drops. I wanted to know when this happens to investigate. No known api for the modem and I couldn’t find another technique, so I’m scraping the modem’s logon page to get the status of the link. I used phantomJS since I need to press a button before the status gets displayed properly.

phantomJS script:

var page = require('webpage').create();
page.viewportSize = {width: 1280, height: 1024};
page.open('http://192.168.0.1/login.htm', function(status) {
    this.evaluate(function() {
        document.getElementsByClassName("button-info")[0].click();
        });
     window.setTimeout(function () {
          var connecttype = page.evaluate(function() {
                return  document.getElementsByName("broadbandConnectionType")[0].innerText;
                });
          console.log( connecttype);
          phantom.exit();
    }, 3000);
});

I then used a command line sensor in my home assistant configuration.yaml

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Exactly what Im looking for.
Where do you run this from? (Sorry bit new to the script side of things)

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This probably isn’t the most elegant solution.

First you need to install phantomJS somewhere on the Home assistant server.
I have:

  1. the phantomJS script (above),
  2. a shell script to run it and
  3. a “command line” sensor defined in my configuration.yaml

yaml: [ change the directory and script name as needed]

sensor:
  - platform: command_line
    name: Internet Status
    command: '/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/phantomJS/monitor_telstra'

This shell script I introduced as I was occasionally having a null string returned (maybe when the router was slow in responding or timing out), It just reruns the scraping code if it gets nothing back. :

monitor_telstra shell script:

result=`/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/phantomJS/bin/phantomjs /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/phantomJS/monitor_telstra.js`
trimmed=`echo $result`
# if empty retry it 
if [ -z "$trimmed" ]; then 
   #retry
   echo `date` >> /tmp/monitor_telstra.log
   sleep 3
   result=`/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/phantomJS/bin/phantomjs /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/phantomJS/monitor_telstra.js`
   trimmed=`echo $result`
   echo $trimmed >> /tmp/monitor_telstra.log
fi
echo $trimmed

probably could do the “redo” logic inside the single phantomJS script to simplify.

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The value of my sensor is “PPPoE routed mode” when the fibre is up.
I then have an automation that alerts me if this changes.

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Here is a screen print of the modem’s login page: https://imagebin.ca/v/5LCNP0fBknFX
and this is data I’m getting: https://imagebin.ca/v/5LCNuEPnyfvb

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This is what I ended up doing to keep it really simple.
Added ‘requests’ to python and then was able to do this.

- platform: command_line
  command: python3 -c "import requests; print(requests.get('http://192.168.0.1/login.htm').text.split('name=\"ledMobile\"',1)[1][12:16])"
  name: NBN Mobile Mode
  scan_interval: 300

It returns ‘off’ or ‘on’

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Necro’ing an old thread here, but thought I would mention that there is a Python 3 interface to query information from a Telstra Smart Modem (Gen 2).

I am no developer, so wondering whether someone more clever than I might be able to code up a HA custom component to incorporate this.

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Here’s my solution, needs no python or separate scripts:

command_line:
  - sensor:
      name: Internet Status
      command: 'curl -s http://192.168.0.1/ | sed -n ''/detailed-info/{s/^.*<span id="Connection Type"[^>]*>//;s/<.*$//;p;q;}'''

I have a Gen3 modem on FTTN. The sensor value shows “IPoE”.