pfSense interface switch?

Third party integrations
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Hi, I would like to know if its possible to switch a interface on or off or otherwise disable and enable an interface from HA for pfSense?

My WAN interface goes down every night at @ 2am, I would like a switch to be able to re-enable it for those naughty late nights.

I am doing this with a cron rule issuing ifconfig igb2 down,

I’m not sure how to do this via HA, SSH is obviously not enabled on my pfSense.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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You should be able to use a RESTful switch sensor and the pfSense API to accomplish this. Judging from the github commits, this is still in active development.

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The pfSense Integration has some potential solutions using the “extremely advanced” services.

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Thanks will look into this

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Thanks for this, can you please explain how this will work?

I am not sure what the endpoint would be to toggle a interface?

switch:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT

Thanks

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I don’t have a pfSense, so I can’t accurately answer that, but if you install the pfSense API on your pfSense box, there should be a menu under System → API. From there, it looks like all the API endpoints are documented there.

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Thanks, i’ve insalled the API,

However, according to the documentation I still cant work out how to actually switch a interface.

The API settings allowed me to select an interface to respond to API calls, just not sure what command to send to switch the interface.

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I’m just going based on the source code in the repo, but I think it might be something like /api/v1/interface/apply? You might have to dig around a bit and see. The other thing might be to ask in the pfSense forums or here?

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Yea, because based on the command above you gave, how would I send a up or down command to bring interface up or down.

Thanks for your help anyway I will keep digging

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I honestly don’t see anything here explaining the extremely advanced functions

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They are in the services example.

# extremely advanced, use with caution
# see EXEC_EXAMPLES.md
service: pfsense.exec_php
data:
  entity_id: binary_sensor.pfsense_localdomain_pending_notices_present
  script: |