Can a "Notification" simply touch a URL?

[widnerm]

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]

Hello widnerm,

 

Yes, precisely! Please do let us know if we can be of further assistance.

 

With kind regards,

Michel