Easy update of any DDNS using Vera Lite - Example.

Developer's Corner Scene Scripting
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Just thought I’d post up something that I found extremely helpful.

I wanted to automatically update my free Dynamic DNS service (through Afraid.org) without using a PC and given my modem only supports DynDns I figured the next best option was trying to use the Vera. So here’s the extremely easy method I used in case anyone else out there is looking for something similar…

[ol][li]Create new Scene to run on a schedule, i.e. update your DDNS every 10 minutes or every day, etc.[/li]
[li]Under Luup use this code:
luup.inet.wget(“<type your URL here in the form http://xxxxxxxxxxx>”, 5)
e.g.
luup.inet.wget(“http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=”, 5)[/li][/ol]

DONE!

Hopefully that helps someone out there!

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Very nice, I was about to build an Arduino to do this task so I didn’t have to dedicate a computer to it. I thought about googling to see if I could do it using my vera and scenes and there was your post. My ddns service was even being hosted by afraid.org. Thanks for the tip, helped me out.

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Thanks for the thanks!

I’ve just moved over to a Fibaro HC2 to give that a go and am so far supremely disappointed with general capability vs cost when compared to my Vera.

I’m trying to replicate the above scene on the Fibaro with no luck and no help on the Fibaro forums as of yet.

No one has any ideas do they?