updated check public ip

setup try/catch for checking public IP address

piflow/PiFlow.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class start(threading.Thread, deviceBase):
                             mqtt=mqtt, Nodes=Nodes)
 
         self.daemon = True
-        self.version = "17"
+        self.version = "18"
         self.finished = threading.Event()
         self.force_send = False
         self.public_ip_address = ""
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ class start(threading.Thread, deviceBase):
         test_public_ip = get_public_ip_address()
         test_public_ip = test_public_ip[:-1]
         test_private_ip = get_private_ip_address()
-        if not test_public_ip == self.public_ip_address:
+        if not test_public_ip == self.public_ip_address and not test_public_ip == "0.0.0.0":
             self.sendtodbDev(1, 'public_ip_address', test_public_ip, 0, 'PiFlow')
             self.public_ip_address = test_public_ip
         if not test_private_ip == self.private_ip_address:

piflow/config.txt

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 "driverFileName":"PiFlow.py",
 "deviceName":"piflow",
 "driverId":"0280",
-"releaseVersion":"17",
+"releaseVersion":"18",
 "files": {
 	"file1":"PiFlow.py",
 	"file2":"Channel.py",

piflow/utilities.py

@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ def get_private_ip_address():
 
 def get_public_ip_address():
     ip_address = "0.0.0.0"
-    with contextlib.closing(urllib.urlopen("httpd://checkip.amazonaws.com")) as url:
-        ip_address = url.read()
+    try:
+        with contextlib.closing(urllib.urlopen("httpd://checkip.amazonaws.com")) as url:
+            ip_address = url.read()
+    except Exception as e:
+        print("Could not resolve address: {}".format(e))
+        return ip_address
     return ip_address[:-1]