Been experiencing a bit of an issue the last month with everything seemingly on and connected, but my Chromecast device would not connect across Wi-Fi today, and sometimes my wife says her phone is not connecting, and I'd have to reboot the home router. So, I decided to write a small routine using the Tasker app to check every 10 mins whether my phone can ping the Home Assistant server over the home LAN. If so, all good, but if not pop up an alert. It only runs this while I'm actually home. If I happen to be at home, but using mobile data, then it will still give an error as the mobile data won't reach the internal IP address.
I'm using the Auto Location 3rd party app for Tasker, which provides more reliable geofencing status, but one could also use the standard Tasker location Profile. Basically, either of these will set a variable called %HOME to 1 if I'm at home, or to 0 if I'm away from home. Below is the Profile that triggers this: If at home it runs task Set Is Home, and if not at home (Exit action) it will run Set Not Home.
The details with screenshots are available at the link below.
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/android-tasker-routine-to-warn-if-home-wifi-is-not-functioning-correctly/
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