oops timeout

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it happens sometimes, dayly, hourly etc etc.
If you catch the “oops timeout” normaly you have to reset pimatic and of you go.
If you are not watching the pimatic-screen all day (and thats what i do) you miss these messages and you system keeps on limping for the rest of the day and is there for unreliable.
Is here no way te automaticly catch a “oops timeout”? maybee a variabele?
would be great because than i can reset automaticly.

Thanks Hans

sounds like a network issue to me.
imho you should investigate where this instable connection is coming from
how do you attach the pi to your network - wifi or cable?
dhcp or static ip adress?

Hello leader21
I do not think its not a netwerk error. the pi is connected via cable. Pi and pinacle is good approachable.
Its more a 433 or arduino problem.
What i actually would like is a way to check if the arduino is still working, this seems to be not posible so i opt for a “oops timeout” option

@hansjeu I use following script with crontab to make sure it is running;

#!/bin/bash
SERVICE=pimatic
if P=$(pgrep $SERVICE)
then
    echo "$SERVICE is running, PID is $P"
else
    echo "$SERVICE is not running"
    node /usr/local/bin/pimatic.js start
fi

Save it as check.sh, do chmod +x and add to crontab -e

Hello GlenoOh
I am not a Linux expert, so this is going a bit too fast.
Could You elaborate a bit more?

Greetings Hans

@hansjeu this is not advanced linux.

sudo nano check.sh

Paste the code i posted and press
ctrl +x - y - ENTER

Then
sudo chmod +x check.sh
Otherwise the check.sh file is not executable.

Now test it:
sudo ./check.sh

It should output Pimatic is running or it will start it

Then type
crontab -e
Add following to check pimatic every 15 minutes:
0,15 * * * * /path/to/check.sh
Press(again)
ctrl + x - y - enter to save.

Now it should be good to go.

To keep within the context.
Oops this checks if pimatic is running but does it also check if my arduino is still responding?

Greetings Hans

@hansjeu no, it only looks if pimatic is running. I assume you use your arduino for homeduino? If so, it needs pimatic so no pimatic means no homeduino/arduino.

And, since it is a plugin, it will load again after restarting pimatic.

Non the less, you could create a code to check if it is connected, but i dont have it currently for you.

having a new plugin from @thex called pimatic-watchdog-unix
maybe the plugin can be improved somehow to detect if the homeduino nano is still running and give feedback / restart pimatic or the pi if not.

the todo list seems to plan something similar for plugins and rules

@leader21 does this plugin run in the background? Cause if it needs pimatic to load and pimatic is crashed then it is useless. Looks good non the less.

well it does what is described

Check if pimatic process is still running
Check if pimatic is still reachable via webinterface
Restart pimatic if one of the above fails
Reboot the machine if restart of pimatic fails

have not tested yet, but the plugin calls a shell script that watches the processes "externally"
see the github repo for that

@Gleno0h said in oops timeout:

does this plugin run in the background? Cause if it needs pimatic to load and pimatic is crashed then it is useless. Looks good non the less.

The plugin runs an external script and is “disconnected”. Otherwise the plugin would not be very useful.

after pimatic is startet sucessfully once the script is running in the background detached from the pimatic process

Yes i understood. Thanks…