RE: Re: Telnet Homeseer

["aashram" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am off for 2 weeks today to work @ an orphanage and hospital in India
over xmas and new year which should be great,  so I needed a quick
solution to the router reset solution

This is what I did.

I used my filesvr which has slackware linux and I knocked up a quick
script
thats scheduled using cron. It pings the internet and if it fails it
telnets into the router (using expect) and resets it and sends me an
email via perl telling me it has done so. Fingers crossed the router
does not need a hard reset. But with the vigor 2600 I very rarely need
to do a hard reset (touch wood!).
I don't have a x10 appliance module handy so could not do the x10
approach. I will be expanding the script to do a soft reset and if that
fails instruct homeseer to do a hard reset but that will have to wait
for the new year :-)

If anyone is interested in the scripts email me offlist. They are very
loosely coded but can be easily modified. I will clean them up later.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Everybody !