amINetConnected-Pi - Rebooting your cable modem when we can talk to the world

That frustrating time when your cable modem just locks or get's upset or just planely looks like it's happy but you can't connect to the internet...

It happens to most of us and can be very frustrating - often is :)

Looking on and off for an easy & cheap switchable mains device and a few weeks ago stumbled across this from digital-loggers.com, readily available from amazon for $20.

Often these devices aren't so cheap, but this one looks great. Sure you can use the normal 2 pole relay with a load of hand crafted wires, but I'm not up for this in this instance when we are talking about a box that needs to sit near the cable modem itself an kids are around.

The device has 2 sockets normally off and 2 normally on, and is Raspberry Pi ready, so theory goes should be just drive-able from gpio..

I figure we'll use the normally on sockets to power the cable modem and when the Pi can't talk to the outside world it will be a simple case of cycling the the sockets down via gpio...

time for the 'amINetConnected-Pi' project to be born...