Pi still disappearing from network

[rbrian]

I've used this plugin for quite a while, and was very happy with it until recently. The Pi exhibits it's old behavior, which is that it disappears from my network from time to time. It still seems functional, as prints continue to completion, I'm just unable to see the web interface or connect with PuTTY.

I don't know if there's a configuration problem since an OctoPi reinstall a ways back, or if there's some other issue. I'll be happy to provide whatever information I can to help diagnose. I am able to put a screen/keyboard on my Pi, although I don't have it set up that way at the moment.

[Snakn1]

FYI It may be octopi. mine has been dropping off my home network the past 2 weeks also, I was looking in to install this to have it reset he connections. I have a touch screen on my pi (Pi 4 4gb vintage 2018) and it shows not connected but have local host access from the pi. I locked myself to only chrome full screen mode for the local host and terminal access. FYI a reboot does not fix, it hangs. I have to power it off.

[rbrian]

My pi is unfortunately headless, so the only recourse I usually have is a power cycle.

[Snakn1]

I found a script to run on my pi 4 (from the crontab) to auto check the internet and every 5 min if the I-net is down it first tries to restart the network service 3 times then if still down it kills' all network process and them re-starts them all. If then fails, if the print job is running it will just pause it ( I can access the pi) this way I known it has failed many tries to connect, without killing the job if I did not have too.