tgauchat
(ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)
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I believe ping runs over ICMP protocol (and perhaps can be faked using UDP?), but the SmartHub currently only supports HTTP officially (do a search on UDP on the Forum – I believe the latest post is that UDP send/receive can “sorta” work, by using the HTTP timeouts).
That’s probably the key. If you use HTTP to the desired ports, you won’t get an HTTP header, but you might be able to tell the difference between a bad response and no-response (i.e., timeout).