Device presence

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Hello all,
I’m looking to create an item to monitor if a specific device is on the network. I have an RTSP camera which is not always on. What would be the best way to monitor and record the status of the camera (online/offline) and track the last time it was on?

I’m running OpenHAB on a Raspberry Pi 2 and it’s running fine as I don’t have a lot on it but I don’t want to put too much load by doing this.

Thanks in advance

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Try the networkhealth binding to have OH ping it at defineable intervals.

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The Network binding might be a better choice on OH 2. But both will work but Network may be a bit more comfortable to use if you are mainly familiar with 2.x versoon bindings.

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Sorry yes the ‘network’ binding is the one I meant, too.

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Thank you very much guys.

I’ve installed the binding and configured the following:

A Thing
network:pingdevice:ipcam[ hostname=“192.168.0.38”, retry=1, timeout=5000, refreshInterval=60000]

An Item
Switch IPCam “IP Camera” { channel=“network:pingdevice:ipcam:online” }

On my Sitemap I have
Text item=IPCam

All I get is the camera icon on the sitemap. How can I get it to display “online” or “offline”

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Set the icon to what you want it to be. You can also print the item’s state in the label. See the Item docs for details.

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Thanks for the tip. I’ve managed to get it to work now. However, I’ve had to use network:device:ipcam instead of network:pingdevice:ipcam and added to the sitemap

Text item=IPCam label="[%s]"

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