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Nachtzuster / BirdNET-Pi

A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 5, 4B 3B+ 0W2 and more. Built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
https://birdnetpi.com
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Feat proposal : apprise alert if analysis service stopped ? #97

Closed alexbelgium closed 3 months ago

alexbelgium commented 3 months ago

Proposal : use apprise to send an alert if services are failing

Implementation : cron job to periodically monitor if "birdnet_analysis" service is active, and send a telegram alert if not ? should it also monitor recording (although recording can be paused to accomodate backlogs)

Usercase : in case the service stops for whatever reason, the user is alerted. Could be especially useful for remote systems.

Counterargument : only works if the system is on ; an external healthcheck could be even more efficient (publish services status as a json in an endpoint) ?

Nachtzuster commented 3 months ago

not sure if it would scratch your itch, but there is a heartbeat: https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi/blob/0a09e73549c0b0d4f5effbeb7088a0fcf7eb36fa/scripts/install_config.sh#L246

## HEARTBEAT_URL is a location to ping every time some analysis is done
## no information is sent to the the URL, its a heart beat to show that the
## analysis is continuing

HEARTBEAT_URL=
alexbelgium commented 3 months ago

Thanks! I hadn't noticed it. Then indeed it is probably better to use an existing feature rather than complexifying things.