I now have my first RUT200 router.
I want to use it to switch remote lighting on and off.
Switching on and off with SMS works quite well.
Currently I have the following problems and unfortunately I have not managed to solve them after intensive reading and googling.
as soon as I switch on the router (power on), the output is set to high as soon as the router is fully powered up
I need the output to always be the same as when the router was switched off.
If this is not possible, the output should be set to Low by default when restarting.
i would like to send an SMS with the current status (signal strength, etc…) every 1 hour. Basically like the function Service > Mobile Utilities > SMS Utilities > SMS Rules > Send status. It doesn’t matter to me whether it happens every 1 hour (since start), or always on the full hour
i would like to receive an SMS as soon as the output has been switched. So an SMS message when the output is switched on and a message when the output is switched off.
First, could you please confirm which firmware version is currently installed on your RUT200? If it’s an older one, make sure to update it to the latest firmware version (7.13.4), as an issue similar to the output going “high” on startup shouldn’t be noticeable on this FW.
Now, regarding your setup and faced issues:
If the issue still occurs even on the latest firmware, you can try setting the output to “low” by default after boot-up using a custom script. To do this, navigate to System → Maintenance → Custom Scripts, and add the following to the Startup script section:
This will set the output to “low” 20 seconds (can be changed to a higher amount) after every device boot-up.
To send an SMS with signal strength and system info every hour, you’d need to create a custom script that sends the desired data via SMS and then schedule it using crontabs or using sleep in script’s main loop.
More information about custom scripting and crontabs can be found in the following links:
#!/bin/ash
# Recipient phone number (change this to your number)
RECIPIENT="+XXXXXXXXXX"
# Function to send status SMS
send_status_sms() {
# Get current date and time
UPTIME=$(uptime)
# Get signal strength
SIGNAL=$(gsmctl -q)
# Get network operator
OPERATOR=$(gsmctl -o)
# Get IP address
IP_ADDR=$(ifconfig $(route -n | grep '^0.0.0.0' | awk '{print $8}') | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' |
# Compose message
MESSAGE="Router Status: $UPTIME Signal: $SIGNAL Operator: $OPERATOR IP: $IP_ADDR"
# Send SMS
gsmctl -S -s "$RECIPIENT $MESSAGE"
# Log to syslog
logger -t "HourlyStatusSMS" "Sent status SMS to $RECIPIENT"
}
# Main loop
while true; do
# Send initial SMS immediately
send_status_sms
# Sleep for 1 hour (3600 seconds)
sleep 3600
done
To send SMS notifications on RUT200, output change can be achieved pretty simply by using the Event Juggler feature. The Event Juggler configuration setup for this could look similar or identical to the one provided in the screenshots below:
The user-defined script for automatic switch-off after booting worked right away
Unfortunately I could not find the “Event Juggler” in the web interface.
I only found the “I/O Juggler”, which is located under “Service → Input/Output → I/O Juggler”. But there I can only define events for the input.
Can you please describe where exactly I can find the “Event Juggler”?
I have now solved the situation with the regular status a little differently. I use a smartphone app to regularly send a trigger SMS to the router, which then responds with the status. For me, this has the advantage that each user can do it at their own pace.
Regarding your question: for now, if you prefer, you can continue using the I/O Juggler feature. However, please keep in mind that it is planned to be deprecated and fully replaced by the Event Juggler in future firmware updates. While there’s no exact timeline known for its removal, it’s likely to happen with 7.15 or one of the following releases, so you probably have a month or two before any mandatory changes.
If your current I/O Juggler configuration is working as intended, you can stay on it. That said, it is recommended to gradually migrate your configurations to the Event Juggler when convenient to stay aligned with future updates and benefit from its extended functionality.
Please excuse my late reply, but it took quite a while until I had physical access to the LTE router to connect.
I have now moved all the stuff from IO-Juggler to Event-juggler.
Unfortunately, I noticed that after updating the firmware version, the script for switching off the output on restart no longer works. (The output is switched on automatically after a restart)
My task was to receive an SMS from the router via the Event Juggler when the output was switched (regardless of which action triggered the switching, e.g. SMS, call, etc…).
When I wanted to create the event in the Event Juggler as described by you, I can unfortunately only select io-status and not io-scheduler. Unfortunately it does not work with io-status.
Here is a screenshot of mine:
Unfortunately I don’t understand what is meant by the sentence “ Could you provide the ubus call ioman.gpio.dout1 status command’s output after the reboot?”. Maybe it’s also because I’m partly using automatic translation as my English is not so good.
I have now changed the startup script as follows, but unfortunately it didn’t work either:
Regarding the other problem:
At the beginning I could not see the scheduler either.
( but I thought I had seen it before the firmware update)
See screenshot:
After I installed the Scheduler package, I found the scheduler. I also activated it, but unfortunately it does not yet appear as an option in the Event Juggler
See screenshot:
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