That's great @uajqq! Like OP, I've been looking for something like this since WeatherUnderground stopped sending alerts. Easy set up and I've got it running.
On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 11:34:05 AM UTC-6 uajqq wrote: > Sorry, forgot to include the link: > https://github.com/uajqq/weewx-healthchecks > > On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 12:33:20 PM UTC-5 uajqq wrote: > >> >> I was recently wondering the same thing, but I didn't find any easy >> answer. I ended up creating an extension that sends a ping to >> healthchecks.io with every archive interval. That way, you can get an >> email, text message, whatever if weewx stops reporting. >> On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 9:29:41 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> It comes down to the source of the failure you want to monitor. >>> Using systemd will let you restart weewx if it stops running but will >>> not detect it looping or otherwise 'working' (as seen by the OS). It also >>> won't detect a OS crash or power down. >>> if you just want the appearance of a file or data records etc. on some >>> external computer (whether inside or outside your LAN) then you could set >>> up something like an MQTT broker and have an app that subscribes tot he >>> packets and does whatever you want if something is not received - a bit >>> like a 'heartbeat monitor' app. However this would show you an error if >>> anything between weewx and the subscriber was not working, not weewx >>> specifically. >>> Susan >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/255e9b4c-4fa0-48e6-838b-694cb73d20ccn%40googlegroups.com.
