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Reputation: 1

How to check internet connection applescript

noob here trying to teach myself applescript and generally not very smart so apologies :|

i was looking at this question and the answers

Check for active internet connection with Applescript/Automator

and i wanted to make a applescript that runs constantly in the background and that puts a red dot in the menubar when i don't have an internet connection and a green one when i don't (using the AnyBar application) but i can't get it to work properly.

can someone please tell me what i am doing wrong. thank you so much!

repeat repeat with i from 1 to 2 try do shell script "ping -o -t 2 www.google.com" exit repeat tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "green" on error tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "orange" delay 2 if i = 2 then tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to "red" end try end repeat
delay 60 end repeat

Upvotes: 0

Views: 469

Answers (1)

vadian
vadian

Reputation: 285064

I'd recommend to use an applet (script saved as application) with an idle handler rather than an infinite repeat loop

property imageName : "red"
property delayValue : 60
property googleURL : "http://www.google.com"

on run
    set imageName to "red"
end run

on idle
    if (count (get ((googleURL as URL)'s host & {dotted decimal form:""})'s dotted decimal form)) > 0 then
        set imageName to "green"
    else
        if imageName is "green" then
            set imageName to "orange"
            set delayValue to 2
        else if imageName is "orange" then
            set imageName to "red"
            set delayValue to 60
        end if
    end if
    tell application "AnyBar" to set image name to imageName
    return delayValue
end idle

Upvotes: 1

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