Offline Alerts

[Mason]

Hi there,

I recently learned one of my IP cameras was vandalized and only found out after I happened to walk by. I am curious if I can setup offline alerts for devices. Let's say after one hour.

Currently using three RT-AC68U routers in AiMesh with the RC4 beta. Also a big fan of Merlin.

Cheers,
Steve

 

[ATLga]

Hi there,

I recently learned one of my IP cameras was vandalized and only found out after I happened to walk by. I am curious if I can setup offline alerts for devices. Let's say after one hour.

Currently using three RT-AC68U routers in AiMesh with the RC4 beta. Also a big fan of Merlin.

Cheers,
Steve

No idea about the firmware but maybe the camera has software or app that will alert your phone or send an email as an alert.

 

[Mason]

Yes, but not nearly as effective in my case. The cameras jump around nodes and I can't set a threshold for X minutes from them.

 

[Mason]

Thank you for the response by the way!

 

[faria]

how about something along these lines?
ping the camera periodically, if it fails then send email notification.

if ping -q -c 1 -W 1 cameraIP >/dev/null; then
  echo "The camera is up "
else
logger -t $(basename $0) "Unable to reach camera"
# insert email notification script/path here.
  

fi

then use a cron job to run the above script .

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

if ping -q -c 1 -W 1 cameraIP >/dev/null; then
  echo "The camera is up "
else
logger -t $(basename $0) "Unable to reach camera"
# insert email notification script/path here.
 

fi

Can you give an example of how to send an email from a command line/script?

 

[faria]

Can you give an example of how to send an email from a command line/script?

Sending Email

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

Sending Email

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

github.com

Thanks, that example will be very useful.

 

[Mason]

Thank you faria! I'll play with these scripts.