Oh, is that why everyone hates matrix so much? I’ve been rocking it for years for me and my wife to communicate. It’s been pretty solid. Calls/video calls are hit and miss, but the chat has been great. I’ve never federated it. Account creation is locked down, local auth, etc.
If you don’t shy away from python, I just use the requests library most of the time:
homeserver_url = “XXX”
access_token = “XXX”
room_id = “!XXX”
url = f{homeserver_url}/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/send/m.room.message"
headers = {“Authorization”: f"Bearer {access_token}",“Content-Type”: “application/json”,}
data = “msgtype”: “m.text”,“body”: “Question of the day!”,}
response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=json.dumps(data))
Alternatively I also have a bot I use in NodeRed connected to Home Assistant.
Double Alternatively, I’ve used AppRise successfully within various tools like ChangeDetection to notify me via matrix.
I had a cable isp issued modem that did the same thing, except it was closer to every other week. I replaced the modem with a nice arris surfboard. Fixed the problem for me on Spectrum for the last two years. Only needed to reboot once every 6mo or so.
Lately though, they’ve been upgrading the network in my area (gigabit bidirectional cable, yay) but the service has sucked on and off for the past two months. I’ll have bad days where my internet is struggling to hit 20mbps down. Rebooting my hardware rarely helps.
My Honeywell T10 is connected to my wifi, I use the Homekit on it with HA. But I setup a firewall rule in my router to block all outgoing internet traffic to a group if IPs. Then I added my smart vacuum, thermostat, printers, doorbell, etc to the group. It’s a solid setup.