# How to monitor Homey availability?

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325 "2019-08-15T22:00:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![prosumer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/prosumer/32/166478_2.png) [@prosumer](https://community.homey.app/u/prosumer)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/1 "2019-08-15T22:00:00Z")

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I just discovered that my Homey was offline for almost a day. Hence no Insights for today… 😢

How do you monitor the availability of your Homey?

Preferably I would like to get a push notification (via a router or Rasperry Pi) when the Homey is unreachable for more than a few minutes.

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**Author:** ![CyberSponk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/cybersponk/32/8334_2.png) [@CyberSponk](https://community.homey.app/u/CyberSponk)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 8:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/2 "2019-08-16T08:41:47Z")

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Got a Flow who sends a Morse-Code-Notification every Hour to my Phone (Android) when nobody is at Home.

So i know that Homey is Online and i don’t have to do anything more e.q. confirn or swipe away a notification-message.

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**Author:** ![Jamie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jamie/32/5274_2.png) [@Jamie](https://community.homey.app/u/Jamie)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/3 "2019-09-20T16:27:40Z")

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You could use a service like [https://www.pingdom.com/](https://www.pingdom.com/) - which notifies you if device is unreachable. It iwll let you know if Homey or your Net is down.

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**Author:** ![prosumer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/prosumer/32/166478_2.png) [@prosumer](https://community.homey.app/u/prosumer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/4 "2019-09-20T16:45:22Z")

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> [@Jamie](#):
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> You could use a service like [https://www.pingdom.com/](https://www.pingdom.com/) - which notifies you if device is unreachable.

Starting at €11,87/month that’s a bit too pricy for me…

I “solved” my problem for now by letting my router ping my Homey once per hour and send a Pushover push notification if the Homey cannot be reached.

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**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/5 "2024-08-16T13:51:39Z")

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**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-monitor-homey-availability/17325/6 "2024-08-06T16:28:44Z")

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See [[Tip] Offline Warning Notifications: Now receive push notifications when Homey Pro goes offline](https://community.homey.app/t/tip-offline-warning-notifications-now-receive-push-notifications-when-homey-pro-goes-offline/114483)
