Network Binding's pingdevice no longer working

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Anyone having any problems with the network binding not working anymore? Specifically the pingdevice portion?

I have tried to uninstall and reinstall the binding with no lock. WoL works fine, but the pingdevice no longer seems to ping iphones and computers accurately.

Never had a problem with it, just started to notice it maybe the last week when automations weren’t working correctly.

OpenHAB installed on a proxmox privileged lxc.

Thanks

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Tried restarting the server? Not just openhab.

Greets

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yeah, still the same thing :frowning:

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Something is broken since updating to 5.0.1 for me and another guy, at least. openhab user no longer able to ping.

Created a ticket @ Docker under LXC unable to ping subnet from openhab user after update to 5.0.1 (and 5.0.2) from 4.3.x · Issue #478 · openhab/openhab-docker · GitHub
Doesn’t seem to have been looked at as yet.

Hmm so even privileged LXC’s are broken too. Was wondering about that.

Please add your instance on the ticket so maybe we can get some eyes on it. I had to roll back.

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this would make sense. I did just update all of my LXC’s the last couple weeks or so.

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This is very likely fixed in a recent commit that is part of the daily snapshot and the next series of patch releases.

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i just updated my openhab instance through openhabian-config to the snapshot build on my instance and it seems to be working now!

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Network:pingdevice breaks after 4.3.6 -> 5.0.1(& 5.0.2, incl. snapshots) update (docker)
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Could you please tell us which one? I am on #4840 and have similar problems with pingdevice.
Thx.

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I just did it now from from openHAB 5.1.0.M1 to openHAB 5.1.0-SNAPSHOT - Build #4847

These are the steps I did.

  • Uninstalled the network binding
  • commented out the network channel in my items file.

    • Switch Presence_UDMPRO “UniFi Dream Machine Pro [MAP(Online.map):%s]” (gBasement, gNetwork) // {channel=“network:pingdevice:UDMPRO:online”}

  • added the snapshot repo

    • echo ‘deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/openhab.gpg] JFrog unstable main’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list

  • Updated to the snapshot build, rebooted my linux container.
  • Reinstalled the network binding
  • removed the uncomments in the items file.

when i checed the systemctl status for openhab

This was on the Milestone

openhabian@openhab5:~$ sudo systemctl status openhab
● openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/openhab.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-10-04 15:40:29 CDT; 4 days ago
Invocation: 0cf2afb33be94efd8570cdb109118b47
Docs: Introduction | openHAB
https://community.openhab.org
Process: 2419 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /var/lock/LCK..ttyAMA0 /var/lock/LCK..ttyACM0 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2421 (java)
Tasks: 371 (limit: 231178)
Memory: 4.9G (peak: 5.2G)
CPU: 10h 21min 19.821s
CGroup: /system.slice/openhab.service
├─2421 /usr/bin/java -XX:-UsePerfData -Dopenhab.home=/usr/share/openhab -Dopenhab.conf=/etc/openhab -Dopenhab.runtime=/usr/share/openhab/runtime →
└─3389 /var/lib/openhab/cache/org.openhab.binding.matter/node_cache/linux-x64/v22.9.0/node-v22.9.0-linux-x64/bin/node /var/lib/openhab/tmp/node-sc>

Oct 04 15:40:29 openhab5 systemd[1]: Starting openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home…
Oct 04 15:40:29 openhab5 systemd[1]: Started openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home.

This was after the update.

openhabian@openhab5:~$ sudo systemctl status openhab
● openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/openhab.service.d
└─override.conf
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-10-09 12:15:17 CDT; 6min ago
Invocation: e4a445d1e2114a5fa8d57c98e5e00959
Docs: Introduction | openHAB
https://community.openhab.org
Process: 185 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /var/lock/LCK..ttyAMA0 /var/lock/LCK..ttyACM0 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 190 (java)
Tasks: 508 (limit: 231178)
Memory: 5.5G (peak: 5.5G)
CPU: 3min 10.082s
CGroup: /system.slice/openhab.service
├─ 190 /usr/bin/java -XX:-UsePerfData -Dopenhab.home=/usr/share/openhab -Dopenhab.conf=/etc/openhab -Dopenhab.runtime=/usr/share/openhab/runtime →
├─1295 /var/lib/openhab/cache/org.openhab.binding.matter/node_cache/linux-x64/v22.9.0/node-v22.9.0-linux-x64/bin/node /var/lib/openhab/tmp/node-sc>
├─3990 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.16
├─3992 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.4
├─3996 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.7.10
├─4004 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.7.207
├─4007 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.4
├─4013 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.10
├─4026 ping -w 10 -c 1 192.168.2.16
├─4028 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.16
├─4030 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.4
├─4032 ping -w 10 -c 1 192.168.7.10
├─4034 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.7.10
├─4040 ping -w 5 -c 1 192.168.2.2
├─4042 arping -w 5 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.2.2
├─4044 ping -w 10 -c 1 192.168.7.207
└─4047 arping -w 10 -C 1 -i eth0 192.168.7.207

Oct 09 12:15:17 openhab5 systemd[1]: Starting openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home…
Oct 09 12:15:17 openhab5 systemd[1]: Started openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home.

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Network:pingdevice breaks after 4.3.6 -> 5.0.1(& 5.0.2, incl. snapshots) update (docker)
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FYI for anyone finding this thread instead of the original linked above.
Proper fix is now available in 5.1.0-SNAPSHOT - Build #4891, without requiring any other action.