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What I think should be a simple problem turns out to be a tough nut to crack.
Assume that I am connected to my home router, but the internet is down. (WiFi is all I care about, not cell data)

IF I use the trigger WiFi Connected it returns TRUE, since I am connected to the SSID (but not to the internet).
If I use the condition Active Network Type, it also returns TRUE under these conditions.

How can I test whether or not I have an internet connection? There must be a way!

The most obvious way would seem to be to send an Action / HTTP Request (to a reliable web site). If it fails, you'll get an error message.

Or perhaps download a dedicated app (PingTools, for example) and use automagic to run that?

Thanks for the reply. Following up on your reasoning, I tried using the Condition Host Reachable, with ping. I used an IP address for a DNS server (Opendns) as the address. This seems to work!

Thanks for the guidance.

What trigger do you use please?

If I understand your question correctly, the ping is a CONDITION, not a trigger. Please see previous posts.

I use this but it doesn't work.

Ciao Akapelis!

Type: Automatic
Host: www.google.com

does not work with me either!

Type: Socket
Host: www.google.com
Port: 80 (also 443)

or

Type: Ping
Host: www.google.com

is working!

greeting
Peter

The "socket" option works perfectly, the "ping" option works fine when I'm connected by WiFi, but returns me false (no internet) when connected in 4G.
Thank you Peter.