Software Watchdog CCU Addon – hm-watchdog

A HomeMatic CCU Addon package implementing a software watchdog functionality to monitor all important services a CCU devices requires to function correctly. As soon as the watchdog recognizes a service to be down it will try to restart the service. If a service couldn't be restarted three times in a row the software watchdog will also automatically reboot the CCU device. Furthermore, the watchdog will use the standard CCU notification system to notify the administrator of services that were found to be non-working

Features

• regularly checks the following CCU services:
  • primary services:
    • ReGaHss
    • rfd
    • hs485
    • HMServer / HMIPServer
  • secondary services:
    • lighttpd
    • ifplugd
    • syslogd/klogd
    • ntpclient
    • watchdog
    • CCU2: udevd
    • CCU2: mutimacd
    • CCU2: ssdpd
  • third-party services:
    • CUxD
• automatically reboots CCU device if one of the services failed 3 times in a row
• automatically executes a ReGa script if one of the services had to be restarted
• RaspberryMatic: automatically loads/initializes hardware watchdog device kernel module

Supported CCU models

• HomeMatic CCU1
• HomeMatic CCU2
• RaspberryMatic

Installation

1. Download of recent Addon-Release from Github
2. Installation of Addon archive (hm-watchdog-X.X.tar.gz) via WebUI interface of CCU device

Support

In case of problems/bugs or if you have any feature requests please feel free to open a new ticket at the Github project pages. To seek for help for configuring/using this Addon please use the following german language based fora thread: hm-watchdog.

License

The use and development of this addon is based on version 3 of the LGPL open source license.

Authors

Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Jens Maus <mail@jens-maus.de>