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Firewalla Gold + Events to Home Assistant

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Theo

Hello All,

My ISP has been experiencing issues and it cuts out.  Typically, it is down and I need to manually unplug the modem and after a restart, its back online. So naturally, I wanted to automate this. I connected a TPLink smart plug to the modem's plug and added it to Home Assistant. Now I can at least manually reboot the modem IF I am home. If I am not, there is no connectivity. Firewalla knows when the WAN goes down. Alerts are generated. So all I need is to be able to send these events/alert to Home Assistant so it can act upon them. Ideally, if the WAN is down for at least 20 minutes, it would reboot the modem automatically even if I am not home. 

Exploring this led me to the MSP API's for Firewalla. The API's are not on the free Tier. It also appears to be a cloud API meaning that I can't make calls directly to the box over the LAN?

Has anybody come across this scenario and are there any better ways to get the alerts out of firewalla and into Home Assistant? I know it is a linux machine so there may be a messier way to access the logs directly on the firewalla machine but that seems like a lot more work to build out something to accomplish this. 

 

Thank you

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    Michael Bierman

    Hi @Theo,

    If your Firewalla is down, how do you hope to connect to Home Assistant? 

     

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    Theo

    Sorry maybe I wasn't clear. The firewalla and home assistant are online. It's just my internet connection cuts out. Firewalla knows as it starts WAN is down

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    Theo

    States*

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    Michael Bierman
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    But if your Internet goes down, how would you connect or get a notification?

     

    if firewalla thinks the connection is down when it isn’t you should check and modify the  Connectivity tests. 

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    Theo

    I don't care about a notification to my phone. I just want home assistant to receive the notification so it can reboot the modem

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    Michael Bierman

    I suppose you could use the MSP API to determine if Firewalla thinks it is offline and restart the modem if the LAN is working. But the API requires connectivity so this is only going to work if the box is giving you a false positive. 

    Is it possible to work with the ISP to improve the service?

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    Tomas Ekroth

    No need to involve Firewalla here. I would just google "home assistant check internet connection".

    First hit on google:

    I’m using this binary sensor to detect internet unavailability (8.8.8.8 is google’s dns server):

     
    - platform: ping
  name: Internet
  host: 8.8.8.8
  scan_interval: 15
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