Hi John,
Wow! That’s remote indeed!
In my other reply, I linked to some code that should work to ping. Just to make sure, I tested it and it worked as expected:
For reference, what I used was:
import os
hostname = "google.com" #example
response = os.system("ping -c 1 " + hostname)
#and then check the response...
if response == 0:
print(hostname, 'is up!')
else:
print (hostname, 'is down!')
Give this a go with your solenoid, and let us know how it goes!
-James
