I bought a new modem today, slightly hoping that it will fix whatever connection issues i’m having, it’s a newer model surfboard (SB6190) and as such I’ve had to update my script which checks the status.
import requests
import datetime
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
#import dateparser
import tweepy
import re
#Set up Twitter creds
CONSUMER_KEY='[REPLACE ME]'
CONSUMER_SECRET='[REPLACE ME]'
ACCESS_KEY='[REPLACE ME]'
ACCESS_SECRET='[REPLACE ME]'
#Authenticate with Twitter
auth=tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY,CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_KEY,ACCESS_SECRET)
api=tweepy.API(auth)
#Set up regex patterns
timespanPattern = re.compile("^(\d+)\s+d:\s+(\d{1,2})\s+h:\s+(\d{1,2})\s+m$")
#scrape the modem page
page = requests.get("http://[REPLACE WITH INTERNAL IP OF MODEM]/cgi-bin/swinfo")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')
#navigate the DOM to get the desired data
modeminfo = list(soup.find_all('table', {"class": "simpleTable"})[1])
#print modeminfo
uptime = list(modeminfo[3].children)[3]
#print uptime
timestr = uptime.get_text()
#print timestr
#Take the text and get the time data out
matches = timespanPattern.match(timestr)
#print "Days: " + matches.group(1)
#print "Hours: " + matches.group(2)
#print "Minutes: " + matches.group(3)
days = int(matches.group(1))
hours = int(matches.group(2))
minutes = int(matches.group(3))
#create timespan so we can figure out at what time the reboot happened
span = datetime.timedelta(days=days,hours=hours,minutes=minutes)
currenttime = datetime.datetime.now()
timespan = currenttime - span
status = ""
if minutes < 5 and days == 0:
status="Hey @Comcast, my modem just rebooted at " + timespan.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
api.update_status(status)
print status
else:
print "Modem has been up since " + timespan.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
Update 7/15/2017 19:04
It looks like the new modem doesn’t behave like the old one. The old one would reboot automatically when things got unstable and would log a bunch of T3 and T4 errors. The new one does similar, but doesn’t reboot, it’ll just stay up. I’ll have to find a new approach to annoy Comcast 😛 Today the internet connection wouldn’t stay up for longer than an hour after I put the new modem on. I got in contact with Comcast’s online support and they did some magic on their end and after a few modem reboots and reboot of my firewall, things seem to be more stable. At this point the connection has been up for ~2 hours without incident. Here’s to hoping we’ll get a few weeks more of uptime 🙂