Is there any way to get Home Assistant to monitor whether a particular IP address and port combination is visible?
I’ve got some industrial automation equipment that’s giving me trouble integrating into Home Assistant because its not always visible on the network. It drops off for various reasons that I’m still trying to fix.
I’d like Home Assistant to be able to check if it’s visible before running automation that involve it, and do nothing if it is off line.
Communication is so far only one way. I can send data packets to it, but it can’t respond, and won’t produce any error messages if it’s off line when Home Assistant tries to talk to it.
What I’d like to do is to check if there is a port open on a specific IP address on one of my server. If that port is open then the equipment is online, if it’s not, then it’s off line.
Is this possible with Home Assistant?