Pi.Alert failing to get internet IP when IPv6 is used

[roberthawdon]

When running python ~/pialert/back/pialert.py internet_IP I get the following output:

Pi.Alert 2.52 (2021-01-11)
---------------------------------------------------------
Check Internet IP
    Timestamp: 2021-01-13 05:53:00

Retrieving Internet IP...
    Error retrieving Internet IP
    Exiting...

After examining the code, it appears that Pi.Alert has no way of handling an IPv6 response from opendns. I also couldn't find a way to make opendns respond with my IPv4 address, so to workaround the issue for now, I changed the lookup service to ipv4.icanhazip.com by changing line 160 in pialert.py to read:

curl_args = ['curl', '-s', 'http://ipv4.icanhazip.com']

Will Pi.Alert be updated to check both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses?

[pucherot]

Hi Robert
please, can you execute this commands and paste the result?

curl -s https://diagnostic.opendns.com/myip
curl -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com

(if you want, you can replace some characters with #)

[kotahukka]

not Robert but I'm having the same issue.
when I run the above commands I get
curl -s https://diagnostic.opendns.com/myip
2600:1700:12e2:###::###
curl -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com
75.57.12#.#

[roberthawdon]

Hi, apoligies for the delay:

curl -s https://diagnostic.opendns.com/myip returns:
2a02:c7f:98c2:####:####:####:####:####

curl -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com returns:
151.231.###.###

[pucherot]

Solved in v2.55.
Now default Server to query you IP is http://ipv4.icanhazip.com
You can configure it in pyalert.conf

[pucherot]

Hello again

Please, can you test this command
dig @resolver4.opendns.com myip.opendns.com +short