Alternative way to handle feeder outages

I use a NOOELEC dongle for receiving ADS-B signals and sometimes it hangs whereby it stops delivering messages to the dump1090 software. A typical symptom of this fault is when my pi is working fine but I have the “(0 in last 5m)” message within my /var/log/piaware.log file

So I wrote a little bash script which monitors this piaware log file and if it sees any of these messages it sends me a warning email (using ssmtp connected to gmail) with some context and then reboots the device. I run this script every 5 minutes via cron.

The search string could be changed for other items in this or other log files… I added some comments hopefully to decipher the code… Hopefully it is some use to somebody here.

https://pastebin.com/ebwmpmaw

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cool - very nice idea :slight_smile: