Turn PDU device on with Laravel Scheduler and Laravel Redirect-CodePudding

I have a Power Delivery Unit device connected to my local network, that is controlled by a simple web page and I´m trying to use Laravel Schedule to turn the device on and off at specific times of the day. So I´ve created a PDUController with the following methods: (both approaches work fine)

public function on()
{
    return redirect()->away(
        "http://192.168.0.100/control_outlet.htm?outlet6=1&outlet7=1&op=0&submit=Apply"
    );
}

public function off()
{
    return Redirect::to(
        "http://192.168.0.100/control_outlet.htm?outlet6=1&outlet7=1&op=1&submit=Apply"
    );
}

If you visit the routes:

Route::get('/pdu/on', [PDUController::class, 'on'])->name('pdu.on');
Route::get('/pdu/off', [PDUController::class, 'off'])->name('pdu.off');

Everything works as expected and you can turn the device on or off accordingly. Now when I use the Scheduler on Kernel.php like:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->call('App\Http\Controllers\PDUController@on')->everyMinute();
}

It doesn´t work. I know the flow is right, because I can Log::debug() every step of the process correctly, but the device is not receiveing the signal and thus is not turning on. Could you help, please? Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

The Redirect functions return a redirect response to the browser. Since the scheduler runs through Artisan, there is no browser to redirect, so no connection is made. Instead, use the HTTP Client to create a connection to the page.