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If you are willing to throw a bit of money rather than code at the problem:

Ubiquiti has a power strip in beta now that uses statistics from their routers to decide when to power cycle upstream devices.

You can also find "Web Power Switches" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0765NCB2L) under $200 that are scriptable, so when a ping to a specific site fails it cycles power to a set of devices.

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Ooh I didn’t know about that Ubiquiti strip. I must admit that I didn’t even look about for existing solutions (honestly I just wanted to finally have a use for these plugs I had lying about).

Working in IT as a Systems Engineer, My thought process is always first -> Existing solution or Tool, if not exist, Patching existing tools together, if not exist, code our own solution.

Hah yes in this case I already had most of the tools lying about. In fact the hardest part was figuring out why the hell the barrel-jack didn’t fit in the modem. Ended up finding an Amazon review with the correct connector size.

That's kind of ironic, considering they don't provide a scheduled reboot feature for their own gear (which often needs it for IoT usage).

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