[Reactor] Bug when sending MQTT boolean payloads

[Fanan]

Hi!
Once a month or so, my internet access is lost, and I have to cut the power to the router, to restart it. When I'm away this become a problem, so I thought that if I got a zigbee switch (in Home Assistant), problem is solved. But how do I (MSR) know if it's offline?

1. What's the easiest and most effective way to make this work? Do I ping a few websites every ten minutes or so, or is there a better approch?
2. If I'm going to ping, what URL is recommended?

For information, I have a set up with Asus routers, Home Assistent with zigbee-, z-wave and wifi devices (a total of appr. 150) and every of my 60-70 automation is done by MSR.
I run MSR ver. 22080-ae7212f (docker on my Home Assistant blue). HA ver 2022.4.6.
Thanks in advance.
Take care, you all!
/Fanan

[toggledbits]

Yes, much better, thanks. There is a script to drive a boolean attribute on the Reactor system entity to track the up-down state of Internet access (bare metal users can find that in the tools subdirectory), but I can't guide you on how to get that running under Home Assistant Blue.

Here's a thread that may help you get the equivalent running in Hass, which you would then be able to see as a binary sensor in Reactor: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-checking-if-internet-connection-is-online/313324

[toggledbits]

Attention to the posting guidelines, please: need to know your host platform information, Reactor version number, etc.

[Fanan]

@toggledbits my bad. I've added some info in my first post. Hopefully it's enough.
/Fanan

[toggledbits]

Yes, much better, thanks. There is a script to drive a boolean attribute on the Reactor system entity to track the up-down state of Internet access (bare metal users can find that in the tools subdirectory), but I can't guide you on how to get that running under Home Assistant Blue.

Here's a thread that may help you get the equivalent running in Hass, which you would then be able to see as a binary sensor in Reactor: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-checking-if-internet-connection-is-online/313324

[gwp1]

@toggledbits How does one make use of that script within MSR?

[toggledbits]

The script header contains the simple instructions to get it up and running. From there, you just test the value of the Reactor System entity's attribute reactor_system.internet_ok

[gwp1]

@toggledbits When I review the readme in the config directory it says:

These are the distribution (original) versions of the Reactor configuration
files. You may keep them as a reference, or delete them (and this sub-
directory). The configuration files used in runtime are in the 'config'
subdirectory.

When I review the readme in the dist-config directory it says the same thing. Which one is the actual config directory (I'm betting config).

[gwp1]

@toggledbits So digging thru the script/s a bit I went with config directory as the location.

Attempting to run the script ./reactor_inet_check.sh results in this:

Just for clarify, this is my config directory:

and I'm running MSR on RPi4 bare metal Model B 2GBs latest-22080-ae7212f.

[toggledbits]

You have to run the script from the Reactor home directory.

cd /path/to/reactor
tools/reactor_inet_check.sh

[gwp1]

Got this working brilliantly - thanks to @Fanan for the idea!

[wmarcolin]

@toggledbits hi!

To execute this command in windows? how would the script be triggered?

Thanks!

[toggledbits]

The included script only runs on Linux systems. A version of the script for Windows would make a great community contribution.