Pinging an IP address from an Android Phone

Following a flickering lights problem (brownout) locally today, I cannot ping out village halls BT Hub from my pc. It does, or should have a static IP address. It has been pingable since I ticked the box to allow.
To save driving back and forth to test, can I ping the Hub from my Android phone? At least there is an o2 signal there, unlike EE for the Hub's back-up

Cheers!

Why not Setup a BQM to the halls hub? Let someone else do the pinging and you can check from anywhere (with a browser and internet).

Edit-
Forget to say the other monitoring site I use for a lot of stuff is UptimeRobot - based out of the states, but the free package lets you set up to 50 monitors for free.

If there's a break in connection, then UptimeRobot will send you an immediate email notification (or push notification if you install the app), so you know when you're out of action and also back in action. It's really handy. I'd recommend it.

Edited by Pheasant (Mon 21-Feb-22 22:52:39)

In reference to itstillworks.com/ping-website-android-phone-34426.html:

Several free Ping apps on the Google Play store allow you to ping websites

The most likely answer is that the router needs to be power cycled …. OR it has packed up completely.

So maybe one trip just to make sure it hasn’t packed up, or that the line isn’t down.

Once you’ve ascertained the above you can look into the ping issue. (take a laptop with you for testing maybe ?)

I have an Android app called PingTools. It can save favourite sites to ping. I use this sites Broadband Quality Moniitor. It clearly shows when I had a power cut, with the time the power stopped and when it was restored.

Thanks to all who have answered my query.

Overall it is a bit of a weird one. I will expand my original post.

The village halls heating system is remotely controllable, currently only by me as I have the password. (There were some issues last year with remote control, but turned out that Siemens had not supplied their two modules at the village hall with compatible firmware. This resulted in being able to control the system with a pc connected to the BT Hub in the office wireless or cable, but not via the internet.)

Yesterday there had been a glitch in the local power, my cousin's wall mounted clock had stopped and was waiting for 12 hours to restart at the correct time. Once I heard that, from home found that I could not access the heating. I was going there for a meeting at 6:00pm and when I arrived the building was cold... Unable to access from office pc, so went down into the cellar and power cycled the control system, also power cycled the BT Hub. Access from the office pc returned.
When I got home, I needed to change the on/off times for the room we had used. No access from my home pc. Tried to ping the Hub (which I have done previously) no go.

This morning, access from my pc had returned and surprise surprise I can now ping from home.

Leaves me with whether I actually needed to power cycle the control system. Hence a means, via Android or BQM for monitoring would help in the future.

Thanks Pheasant for UptimeRobot looks interesting; I will try that out later. The Village Hall is currently ADSL, but should be OK.

I will also be looking at the Android option, hand when I am up in the Hall.

Thanks again all.

Cheers!

If a BT hub has switched to 4g backup - which will remain in place for 20 minutes after copper service is respored, then PINGs will not work. Even though you have the same static IP (notionally) it does not respond.

In getting the static IP we had to go to Business Broadband and although BT supplied me with a 4G dongle, I can't use it since, even in an upstairs window, there is no EE signal. The dongle just sits in its box.

Cheers!

OK, best place for it! If it was physically connected even without signal, you would get the issue I mentioned.

I signed up to UptimeRobot just over an hour ago. Simple to do and its pinging away. Be interesting next time I have an access issue. Many thanks for the link.

Cheers!