Pr1 VPN tunnel to full Ignition gateway

[Beno]

I’ve got access to a Starlink terminal.
Not sure when I will get time to set it up and test with EPIC, but am trying to make it a priority.

Here is my high level plan-of-attack…
Use Node-RED, something like this flow to ping / check the VPN:

Groov RIO - Health and Network Status - Example Flow

We have a customer putting a lot of RIO’s into the field and they wanted to get a good bit of information about the each of the RIOs health and well-being back to the central operations center. Most of the system data they wanted is scattered around in different posts here in the forums, so I have just pulled all those threads together here. But they also wanted some network data, like WAN IP address of the cell modem, the RIO’s local IP and more importantly, the VPN IP address of each RIO. Th…

(Just the VPN part of course - no need for most of it)
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Then use the REST API to toggle the VPN when that flow detects its down.

I plan to use @torchard post here to speed up my development of the REST API call to restart the VPN:

Authenticating Opto API calls with HTTP request

Here are some tips to using Opto API’s like groov Manage, groov View, and PAC Control with the standard HTTP request core node. In this post I’ll go over how to set the apiKey header object and how to enable SSL/TLS in the request node. Note that this doesn’t and shouldn’t replace the groov IO nodes, groov View,or the PAC Control nodes – it just provides a way to use API endpoints that are not exposed through those nodes. For example there is no way to use a node to unmount an installed USB dri…

If restarting the VPN via the REST API does not work, then my plan is to get down and dirty and use Node-RED to restart the EPIC network services as per your post about 2 up from here were you say that ‘change nothing and click save’, this is restarting the network services, but of course, it will be done via Node-RED and only done when it detects that it needs restarting… and yes, I know its a workaround… The main goal for me in setting up the Starlink at Opto is to give access to the engineers and help them track it down and fix it at the Linux level.