Any way to restart a cablemodem thru some ST magic?

[brumster (Paul)]

And also a similar thread that may give you some other ideas.

Network outlet with auto restart

Wanted to share this here. http://3gstore.com/product/2062_ip_power_remote_switch.html These guys make a wired network dual outlet that has an auto-ping feature where it will restart your router/modem or whatever if it loses internet connection. I asked them about any kind of API to control it, they said its just a cgi script. I thought if anyone was interested, they could write a SmartApp to control these. http://IPADDRESS/outlet2.cgi?user=admin&passwd=1234&outlet=0&command=1

[danielccm (Daniel Consuegra)]

@brumster

Another possible option if you have a land line:

Remote controlled power switch

I’ll look into this one! Nice!!

[pstuart (Patrick Stuart [@pstuart])]

I’ll share a really cheap solution, get one of those 10 buck 24 hour light timers, set it to turn off and on as close together at 3am. Modem will power cycle nightly for a few minutes offline.

But frankly, if you need to constantly restart the modem, there is something else that is going wrong upstream or in your environment that probably should be dealt with before resorting to rebooting the modem on a schedule.

[danielccm (Daniel Consuegra)]

@pstuart

there is something else that is going wrong upstream or in your environment that probably should be dealt with before

Agreed… just don’t have the TIME to fix it… lol! I’ll go with this idea for now… but instead of @ 3am… I’ll do it at 3 PM when I’m totally sure I won’t be home… Or else the house might go crazy with my coming and going from wifi… I went that route for the best experience in location management… any other means (in-app location, Life360, smartpresence tags, …) just won’t do…

[destructure00 (Chris)]

SmartLighting runs locally right? Set up a rule that when X outlet turns off, turn it on.

**edit - just realize this was already discussed

[pstuart (Patrick Stuart [@pstuart])]

Just remember they “break” by an hour during daylight savings time

[Todd_Whitehead]

I used an arduino with an Ethernet shield and a relay shield to ping Google’s name server and if it fails for 30 seconds, it triggers the relay to turn the cable modem off and then 30 seconds later it turns it back on.

Todd