New plugin pimatic-watchdog-unix

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Hi everybody,

as I will soon create a project which needs more stability I decided to create a new plugin which acts as a watchdog for pimatic.

It can do the following:

• 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

CUATION!!! use this plugin at your own risk, setting low timeout/cycle times and misconfiguration can make it hard to stop it again

I built in some countermeasures but the test coverage currently is also very low.

Todo:

• rewrite sh script in platform independant javascript/coffeescript to make it work on all kinds of machines (although it should already work on many, tested on my macbook and on raspberry)
• try to detect rouge rules/plugins (maybe via monitoring logentries/second in daemon logfile?)

Find it here:
https://github.com/thexperiments/pimatic-watchdog-unix
or here
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pimatic-watchdog-unix

should automatically show up in the plugins soon…

Regards,
X

@administrators
please move this topic…

forum seems to have problems, wanted to post this in plugins category… this is now the third time I’m posting and the post always ends up in another category (safari).

With chrome I currently can’t post at all as I can’t add any tags.
Maybe related to:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9405/how-to-enable-tags-in-post/6

Hello there!

Thanks so much for this plugin. For whatever reason pimatic stops working from time to time - good to know there is someone watching when I can’t.

My Pi is behind a reverse proxy accessible from the outside. I have set the httpURL to this very url. Is that correct or should it be the IP-address of the Pi in my internal network?

You can use either URL if you use the one of your reverse proxy it will also check its functionality but on the other hand if the proxy crashes a restart of pimatic might not repair the problem.