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Old Mar 13, 2017 | 10:41 am
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Originally Posted by MareLuce
If the sensor were inside my house, and it can’t ping an internet location, then something needs to immediately happen. Like a siren goes off :-)? Then I could race upstairs to the attic and say, “OK what did you just do 5 seconds ago”
Well, it's not very hard to come up with a small script to run on your computer that pings some host in the internet (say, Google DNS, 8.8.8.8) 5 times, and it if get 0 replies it opens up some media player to play a siren

Actually you can also run such a script on your Asus router, though it might be a bit more tricky to get it to play a siren with no speakers, but if I needed that at my home I could make it blink the lights through my Phillips Hue bridge
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