widnerm Posted August 16, 2013 Posted August 16, 2013 EDIT - a few minutes after posting this I discovered the "Network Module" add on. I assume that will do what I want. Duh. I'll leave the rest of the post in case there are good tips, I'm sure others have been down similar paths. Sorry if this has been covered bunches of times but I couldn't find it... I'd like to schedule the ISY to simply open up a URL once an hour. That's it. I thought maybe I could do it through the notifications setup, but I can't seem to figure it out. What I'm doing is this - I have a hosted domain that's always running at (for example) http://www.mydomain.com. It has forums on it and that kind of stuff. I buried a simple php script down a few directories (e.g., mydomain.com/ISY/dynamicIP.php) that captures the IP address of any incoming hit and creates a "redirect.php" file that will redirect hits to that page back to my configured ISY port at the previously captured address. So by having the ISY just open up the http://www.mydomain.com/ISY/dynamicIP.php page it creates a link back to my ISY (on a dynamic IP) that I can always access remotely at http://www.mydomain.com/ISY/redirect.php. The reason I need the ISY to hit that link regularly is because I never know when Verizon is going to change my dynamic IP. I suppose my other question is whether there's a better free way to do this. (My approach is effectively free because I'm already paying for the domain and hosting for other stuff.) If I was smart I'd probably put some kind of security on that process, but first step is to get the ISY to open the required address.
Michel Kohanim Posted August 18, 2013 Posted August 18, 2013 Hello widnerm, Yes, precisely! Please do let us know if we can be of further assistance. With kind regards, Michel
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