23 Jul
2025
23 Jul
'25
8:31 p.m.
My pyDECNET router THEARK runs on a Pi Zero W2. Normally all happy and peachy for months
on end but from time to time it loses connection to its area router. I started with a
simple script that checked the connection from time to time and sent an email. Well now
this has grown to a full blown thing with many capabilities so I decided to bring this to
the group. I dropped it on GitHub today
mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon<https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon&g…on>. Take a look
and let me know what you think. Hope it is helpful to some
[https://opengraph.githubassets.com/93cedb97f81cb11006d6953fc6eeba5d4eedc794…
mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon - GitHub<https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>
Process Monitoring: Automatically detects when PyDECNET is not running and restarts it
Link Status Monitoring: Checks DECNET link to A2RTR node every 60 seconds Email
Notifications: Sends alerts when the DECNET link goes down or comes back up Daemon Mode:
Runs as a background service Logging: Comprehensive logging to files and stdout Manual
Operations: Support for manual restart and HECNET ...
github.com
23 Jul
23 Jul
8:36 p.m.
Nice.
On the process monitoring thing: systemctl would do that, as I understand it. That's
how I have my router set up, it's configured in systemctl and as a result starts at
system boot/powerup time.
paul
On Jul 23, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Mike Kostersitz
<mikekostersitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My pyDECNET router THEARK runs on a Pi Zero W2. Normally all happy and peachy for months
on end but from time to time it loses connection to its area router. I started with a
simple script that checked the connection from time to time and sent an email. Well now
this has grown to a full blown thing with many capabilities so I decided to bring this to
the group. I dropped it on GitHub today mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon
<https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>. Take a look and let me know what you
think. Hope it is helpful to some
<https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>
mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon - GitHub <https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>
Process Monitoring: Automatically detects when PyDECNET is not running and restarts it
Link Status Monitoring: Checks DECNET link to A2RTR node every 60 seconds Email
Notifications: Sends alerts when the DECNET link goes down or comes back up Daemon Mode:
Runs as a background service Logging: Comprehensive logging to files and stdout Manual
Operations: Support for manual restart and HECNET ...
github.com <http://github.com/>
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11:53 p.m.
Mike wasn't talking about process monitoring, though, but connectivity
monitoring.
I've not in general had issues with connections stop working after some
time, so I don't know what that would be about. Mike - check that you're
running a current version of PyDECnet...
Johnny
On 2025-07-23 20:36, Paul Koning wrote:
Nice.
On the process monitoring thing: systemctl would do that, as I
understand it. That's how I have my router set up, it's configured in
systemctl and as a result starts at system boot/powerup time.
paul
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On Jul 23, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Mike Kostersitz
<mikekostersitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My pyDECNET router THEARK runs on a Pi Zero W2. Normally all happy and
peachy for months on end but from time to time it loses connection to
its area router. I started with a simple script that checked the
connection from time to time and sent an email. Well now this has
grown to a full blown thing with many capabilities so I decided to
bring this to the group. I dropped it on GitHub todaymkostersitz/
hecnet-daemon <https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>. Take a
look and let me know what you think. Hope it is helpful to some
<https://github.com/mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon>
mkostersitz/hecnet-daemon - GitHub <https://github.com/mkostersitz/
hecnet-daemon>
Process Monitoring: Automatically detects when PyDECNET is not running
and restarts it Link Status Monitoring: Checks DECNET link to A2RTR
node every 60 seconds Email Notifications: Sends alerts when the
DECNET link goes down or comes back up Daemon Mode: Runs as a
background service Logging: Comprehensive logging to files and stdout
Manual Operations: Support for manual restart and HECNET ...
github.com <http://github.com/>
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24 Jul
24 Jul
1:40 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM Mike Kostersitz <mikekostersitz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
My pyDECNET router THEARK runs on a Pi Zero W2.
Normally all happy and
peachy for months on end but from time to time it loses connection to its
area router.
I have to ask... are using Wi-Fi or have you added an USB Ethernet adapter
to your Pi Zero W2?
This could be your Wi-Fi dropping out. An examination of logging (using
journalctl) would verify this.
Tony
7:49 p.m.
It’s a USB Ethernet adapter.
Yes at boot system to brings up the router but often the connection does not come up for
various reasons., thus the monitoring daemon, systemctl does not restart the service when
it goes down for whatever reason either until I reboot.
Mike
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 16:40 Tony Nicholson
<tony.nicholson@computer.org<mailto:tony.nicholson@computer.org>> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:31 AM Mike Kostersitz
<mikekostersitz@gmail.com<mailto:mikekostersitz@gmail.com>> wrote:
My pyDECNET router THEARK runs on a Pi Zero W2. Normally all happy and peachy for months
on end but from time to time it loses connection to its area router.
I have to ask... are using Wi-Fi or have you added an USB Ethernet adapter to your Pi
Zero W2?
This could be your Wi-Fi dropping out. An examination of logging (using journalctl)
would verify this.
Tony
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