topic Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer in Broadband & Landline

automatically set my router to reset with timer

Mikey1963 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:55:23 GMT

How do i automatically set my router to reset with timer please.

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

XRaySpeX — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:12:11 GMT

@Mikey1963 : Which router do you have?

What do you mean by "reset"? Turn itself off & on? Why would you want to do that? Switching routers on & off frequently is not a good idea.

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

monitorcurve — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 19:42:26 GMT

You could easily create a python script using something like Selenium that spins up a headless chrome browser which would navigate to the router page and restart it every x hours, but the question is why and what are you trying to accomplish by doing that?

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

Mikey1963 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:31:33 GMT

Hi pal, i have a ee smart hub.
Kindest regards
Mike...

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

Mikey1963 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:37:19 GMT

Hi pal, to clear cache & stop the router from freezing/crashing because every now & then i have to switch it off & back on again to update.

Kindest regards

Mike...

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

monitorcurve — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 01:11:57 GMT

I just wrote this in Python that will open the router page using Selenium 4, spin up a chrome browser and restart the router for you if you can get the script up and running on a task scheduler it should work just fine:

import time from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC ROUTER_URL = "http://192.168.0.254/DashboardScreen" ADMIN_PASSWORD = "enter-your-router-password" service = Service() options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service) driver.get(ROUTER_URL) # wait max 60 seconds for router page to be visible. restart_hub_button = WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until( EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "RestartHub")) ) restart_hub_button.click() # click on restart router button # find input field for password in popup modal and enter the password admin_pass = driver.find_element(By.ID,"pwd_field") admin_pass.send_keys(ADMIN_PASSWORD) time.sleep(1) ok_button = driver.find_element(By.ID,"admin_password_popup_ok_button") ok_button.click() # on the next page wait until there is the 2nd restart button and click on in to restart the actual router restart_hub_button2 = WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until( EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "restart")) ) restart_hub_button2.click() time.sleep(60) driver.close() driver.quit()

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

bobpullen — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:59:39 GMT

Is the above script even targeting the right local IP for EE routers? Question stands: why are you wanting to do this? What router do you have and what problems are you suffering?

Re: automatically set my router to reset with timer

monitorcurve — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:13:34 GMT

I changed the default subnet on my router to end in 0.254 rather than the default 1.254

It's too late to edit that post now, so i'll just add the following:

ROUTER_URL = "http://192.168.0.254/DashboardScreen" # the default EE Hub Smart Hub router IP address is 192.168.1.254