{"id":881,"date":"2022-09-19T12:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2022-11-14T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:40:03","slug":"monitoring-home-assistant-with-uptimerobot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/monitoring-home-assistant-with-uptimerobot\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Home Assistant with UptimeRobot ( heartbeat monitor)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m very pleased with UptimeRobot<\/a> [affiliate link] and their heartbeat monitoring.
It\u2019s an URL you need to call\/visit every x minutes\/hours\/days, whatever you want, and if its not hit within x time, outside of the grace period, it will alert you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RESTful integration<\/a> is our magic glue here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve added a rest_command to my config.yml<\/p>\n\n\n

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code to copy for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

rest_command:\n    uptimerobot_heartbeat:\n        url: \"https:\/\/heartbeat.uptimerobot.com\/xxx\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
give home assistant a quick restart, or whatever you have to do reload the config 🙃<\/p>\n\n\n
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go and create a new automation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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add a “Time Pattern” trigger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Use “Call service” as an action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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pick the service we created in the config (if its not there, make sure to give hassio a quick reboot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Here is the YAML of the automation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
alias: UptimeRobot ping heartbeat every minute\ndescription: \"\"\ntrigger:\n  - platform: time_pattern\n    hours: \"*\"\n    minutes: \"*\"\n    seconds: \"0\"\ncondition: []\naction:\n  - service: rest_command.uptimerobot_heartbeat\n    data: {}\nmode: single<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Photo by Stephen Dawson<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m very pleased with UptimeRobot [affiliate link] and their heartbeat monitoring.It\u2019s an URL you need to call\/visit every x minutes\/hours\/days, whatever you want, and if its not hit within x time, outside of the grace period, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation","category-homeassistant","category-it","category-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cln.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}