On 1/23/2026 at 2:04 PM, larryllix said:

ISY and an Insteon OnOff module is cheaper and you can control the logic to do it automatically.

However, complete manual control has a lot to be said also.

Manual control is very high on my list. I am just not comfortable with a device deciding when to reboot, I want to make that decision.

Something my husband figured out is that our ISP's (Spectrum in one house, Xfinity in the other) both allow you to request a remote router reset via our account login. I have my Hotspot solution in place for one of my homes, but if/when it goes off-line again, we will try the ISP reset before telling my wi-fi plug to cycle.

10 hours ago, jkmcfadden said:

Manual control is very high on my list. I am just not comfortable with a device deciding when to reboot, I want to make that decision.

Something my husband figured out is that our ISP's (Spectrum in one house, Xfinity in the other) both allow you to request a remote router reset via our account login. I have my Hotspot solution in place for one of my homes, but if/when it goes off-line again, we will try the ISP reset before telling my wi-fi plug to cycle.

That sounds awesome however if your router is crashed it may not pay attention to remote signals at all.

With my three ASUS router mesh I found a reboot would not clear some of the hangs and only a power cyclic would fix some of the weird things. Sometimes one of them would decide certain devices were not allowed to access the Internet outside world. Nothing would ever show a problem, DHCP table issued an IP address, they could talk to other LAN things but the flag inside that enabled/disabled WAN access must have gotten forgotten somehow.
In the end I decided that ASUS did not allow enough EROM memory for all the details it need to keep and just overran the memory without warning. I think I spent half a lifetime on those routers. Nice features but a second one, and a third one did not help. Only made the problems more complicated. ☹️

I just remembered something from the old days. When we were limited to X megabytes per day/month etc.. our ISP would send out the router reset signal and a router would take about 1-2 minutes to reset and reconnect to everything again. They controlled the bandwidth by that method.

That is when I found out that all router companies support that low level signal and I couldn't buy a new router out of that nasty habit. The ISP was taken into a hearing and promised to discontinue that practice after the policing body in Canada threatened them.

Again, it only works with a fully functioning router.