Host, network, and service monitoring

[technicalpickles]

I've been having some problems with some devices being unresponsive. Preferably I should get a alert for these, with an action to perform to try to bring them back.

Depending on what hass is doing, it may be impacted, like if it boots while one of the devices is down, it might not get those devices (ie broadlink).

Some links:

• prometheus
  • blackbox exporter
  • node exporter
• hass prometheus component

[technicalpickles]

Sci-fi dream, monitoring that devices are online to Alexa via its private API. I used developer tools on the Smart Home tab, and saw requests to like https://alexa.amazon.com/api. It might be possible to figure out how to use it.

Some GitHub searching for it lead me to https://github.com/noelportugal/alexa-reminders/blob/42cd552117f51c39c83fe58549475da1de9f2f54/alexa-reminders.js which is the first actual code sample I've seen using it.

[technicalpickles]

Some other useful things:

• reboot needed
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/921541/how-to-determine-if-a-restart-is-needed-on-my-ubuntu-server
• updates available
  • https://askubuntu.com/questions/49958/how-to-find-the-number-of-packages-needing-update-from-the-command-line

[technicalpickles]

Did some work towards this in https://github.com/technicalpickles/picklehome/pull/72 but still need to add alerts and tune them.