NET Ping UI Button + Wake-on-LAN

by PROSTUP LLC · WireYourLife.com

Turn any IP device's reachability into an at-a-glance Navigator button — with built-in Wake-on-LAN and event-driven automation.

Overview

NET Ping UI Button watches up to four IP addresses and rolls their status into a single, themed button on the Control4 Navigator. Green means everything it's watching is reachable, red means it's all down, and amber flags a mixed "something's wrong" state — so a homeowner or a dealer can see the health of a device, a subsystem, or a whole remote location at a glance.

It was built to solve a real problem at a remote property: a breaker kept tripping, and when the power dropped, the network went with it and the automatic gate stopped responding. By monitoring the right IP addresses, this driver makes that kind of failure visible the moment it happens — and its events let you build the response around it: push a notification to the customer, trigger a scene, or wake a device that fell asleep. Pair it with your power-strip and gate drivers in Programming and you have a complete outage-aware automation, with this button as the sensor and trigger at its center.

Add Wake-on-LAN and you can also bring a sleeping TV, NVR, PC, or media device back online straight from Navigator or from a program.

Key features

• Monitors up to 4 IP addresses on a rolling interval and reports a single combined state: Online, Offline, or Faulty (mixed results).
• Three selectable icon themes — Power, Network, and Motorized Gate — each with green (online), red (offline), and amber (faulty) states, so the button reads correctly for whatever it's watching.
• Wake-on-LAN magic-packet sending over UDP broadcast, with a configurable port and support for both subnet-directed and global broadcast.
• WOL verification probe — after a wake, the driver watches for the device to come online and fires a WOL Online or WOL Timeout event so your programming knows whether the wake actually worked.
• Status Hold (debounce) — an adjustable hold keeps brief network blips from flipping the committed state, so notifications only fire on real changes.
• Event-driven — Online / Offline / Faulty and the WOL events are all available in Programming for notifications, scenes, and conditional logic.
• Two-way feedback — the current state is exposed as a read-only variable for use across your project.
• Built-in logging with selectable level and mode for fast, clean commissioning.

How it works

The driver pings each configured address on a timer and combines the results:

• All reachable → Online (green).
• None reachable → Offline (red).
• Some reachable → Faulty (amber).

Each committed change updates the button icon, mirrors the state to a variable, and fires the matching event. The optional Status Hold means a change has to persist before it commits, filtering out momentary drops. Wake-on-LAN is a separate action: it sends the magic packet to the broadcast address you set, then briefly watches the ping monitor to confirm the target came back up.

Example use cases

• Remote power / UPS awareness — watch a device that only stays up while mains power is present; the button turns red the instant the site loses power, and an Offline event pushes a notification to the customer.
• Gate and access monitoring — keep an eye on a networked gate controller; if it drops offline during an outage, react in Programming (notify, or trigger your gate driver to hold the gate open).
• Network health — surface whether a switch, access point, camera, or NVR is reachable, right on a Navigator button.
• Wake-on-LAN — power on a sleeping TV, media server, NVR, or PC from a button press or a program, with confirmation that it actually woke.

Programming

Events: Online, Offline, Faulty, WOL Sent, WOL Online, WOL Timeout.

Commands / Actions: Wake On LAN (using stored properties), Wake On LAN (custom MAC / broadcast / port), Set State, Toggle State.

Variables: read-only current-state variable, plus per-slot IP variables for advanced programming.

Requirements

• Control4 OS 3.3.1 or later.
• At least one reachable IP address to monitor.
• For Wake-on-LAN: the target device's MAC address, a broadcast address that reaches its subnet, and a device that supports WOL (typically over wired Ethernet with "wake on LAN / network standby" enabled).

Setup at a glance

1. Add the driver and place it on a Navigator page.
2. Enter one or more IP addresses to monitor.
3. Pick the icon theme that fits the device (Power, Network, or Gate).
4. For Wake-on-LAN, enter the target MAC, broadcast address, and port.
5. Optionally set a Status Hold to debounce flaky links, then wire the events into your Programming.

Full setup and troubleshooting are included in the driver's built-in documentation.

Trial & licensing

This driver includes a free trial through DriverCentral — add it to a project and evaluate it before you buy. Licensing is handled automatically by the DriverCentral Cloud Driver; add that free driver with your project token and this driver activates against your DriverCentral account.

Support

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