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pimatic-watchdog-unix by Lukas Reinhart (thex) | github | npm

Pimatic Watchdog Unix plugin

This plugin adds a simple watchdog to pimatic for unix based systems (as it is using bash)

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

Example config.json entries:

    {
      "plugin": "watchdog-unix",
      "processEnabled": true,
      "httpURL": "http://127.0.0.1:80/",
      "httpEnabled": true,
      "active": true
    },

Plugin Config Options

Options for watchdog unix plugin.
OptionDescriptionDefault
processScriptName
string
Name of the script used to start pimatic (normally pimatic.js)
"pimatic.js"
processEnabled
boolean
Enable/disable process running check
false
httpURL
string
URL to use for http/https request
"http://127.0.0.1:80/"
httpTimeout
number
Timeout for the http request (seconds)
60
httpEnabled
boolean
Enable/disable http request check
false
watchdogCycleTime
number
Watchdog cycle time (seconds)
30
watchdogRetries
number
Number of retries to start pimatic after a hang/crash
3
watchdogEnableReboot
boolean
Enable/disable reboot after retry limit was exceeded
false
pimatic-watchdog-unix is written by Lukas Reinhart (thex)