Healthcheck.io setup for Home Assistant

Go to healthcheck.io and configure your first project and sensor. After you get your first key you can start implementation. On linux hosts it’s easier to embed that into cron but in home assistant there’s multiple options.

You could either create a rest command in your configuration.yaml and call it via a timed automation (every x minutes, the one you’ve configured in the healthcheck dashboard).

# Example configuration.yaml entry
rest_command:
  healthcheck:
    url: "https://hc-ping.com/{your-key}"

Or you could add a cron job via the terminal (by running crontab -e and putting the following line inside): */5* \* \* * curl -fsS -m 10 --retry 5 -o /dev/null https://hc-ping.com/{your-key}

Or the easiest method by using [https://github.com/custom-components/healthchecksio](healthcheck.io home assistant’s integration via HACS). As you can see from the documentation it actually doubles as a ping for the key that you specify, but also as an aggregator to visualize on Home Assistant the state of your other configured pings in the Healthcheck.io UI.