Use OpenHAB to restart internet connect

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Hi!

I’m restarting my Internet connection if it’s down. I’m not doing it on my rpi3 where openhab runs, but you could do it on the same machine where openhab runs.

A simple approach is to run a cron job every 5-15 mins or so, do a PING, and if the connection is down do a restart.

#!/bin/bash

#Your nic                                           
INTERFACE="ethX"

# These lines won't really tell if internet is up/down
# Check anyway, but not acting on it at the moment
IS_UP=`cat /sys/class/net/${INTERFACE}/operstate`
echo "$IS_UP"

# Ping twice just to be sure
/bin/ping -c 2 8.8.8.8
/bin/ping -c 2 8.8.8.8
if [ $? -ge 1 ]; then
  echo "Network down :("
  #Run some scripts here like:
 /etc/init.d/network restart
 /path/myfirewallscript
 /etc/init.d/restart some service
  exit 1
else
  echo "Network up! :)"
  exit 0
fi

You could do this in openhab with execbinding, read status and then restart or do actions within openhab.

Regards, S