Get notified when HC2 is offline, how?

[Spindel 3]

Is there a service or other solution to notify me, preferably by push notification to my phone, when my HC2 is offline?

I´m thinking some kind of service that pings or polls the HC2 IP or something. 

[eureka 9]

maybe you can try to ping it?  or put a dns on it, if the there is no response from the dns it will give an error (for which you can send a mail).

 

 

 

[Spindel 3]

39 minutes ago, eureka said:

maybe you can try to ping it?  or put a dns on it, if the there is no response from the dns it will give an error (for which you can send a mail).

 

 

 

 

Sure, but I don´t have any hardware that is up and running 24/7.

 

Also I´m not sure how to find the IP directly to the HC2 behind my router. I guess som kind of port forwarding is needed but I never really learned that.

[eureka 9]

17 minutes ago, Spindel said:

 

Sure, but I don´t have any hardware that is up and running 24/7.

 

Also I´m not sure how to find the IP directly to the HC2 behind my router. I guess som kind of port forwarding is needed but I never really learned that.

 

Yes, you would need to set up port forwarding on your router. It depends on the type of router that you have on how to do that. Probably if you google on your router and port forwarding you will find a manual.

 

Portforwarding should be done on port 80 if I'm not mistaken.

 

For a DNS service, just google free dns

 

 

Though I must ask, why would your HC2 go offline?

[Spindel 3]

1 minute ago, eureka said:

Though I must ask, why would your HC2 go offline?

 

That´s what I´m wondering!

 

It was offline all day yesterday, I couldn´t reach it from home.fibaro.com. When I came home it still didn´t work, although it looked ok with the blue LEDs, even the internet connection LED was lit. I restarted it and since then it´s ok.

 

If it happens again I want to know about it.

[eureka 9]

8 minutes ago, Spindel said:

 

That´s what I´m wondering!

 

It was offline all day yesterday, I couldn´t reach it from home.fibaro.com. When I came home it still didn´t work, although it looked ok with the blue LEDs, even the internet connection LED was lit. I restarted it and since then it´s ok.

 

If it happens again I want to know about it.

 

I had this some time ago, I think after I updated to the latest firmware version. Hasn't happened since though. If it does happen again, I would contact Fibaro.

[Hiram K. Hackenbacker 2]

That is another flaw of the HC2... I have about 20 devices in my network and ALL of them can be reached from the LAN at any time... Except for the HC2. Because the programmers at Fibaro are complete idiots that don't have a clue. Also, the other problem still hasn't been solved: after a network outage (e.g. because I had to power off the mains of my router) the HC2 is, again, THE ONLY DEVICE that is completely lost in cyberspace, until it gets kicked in the behind with a power cycle.

 

I wrote a watchdog routine that monitors the on-line status in various ways and performs a reboot when the HC2 is lost again; this works well, but it it makes you wonder about the people that developed the HC2 and that forces one to write "band aid" software to mend their many failures. They are either total n00bs, or they are geniuses; one must be a pretty brilliant programmer to build in such stupid bugs. 

 

[karaokek 3]

On 3/8/2019 at 11:12 PM, Hiram K. Hackenbacker said:

 

I wrote a watchdog routine that monitors the on-line status in various ways and performs a reboot when the HC2 is lost again; this works well,

Hi

Any chance you could post your routine. I am sure it would very useful to many users.

Thanks

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