Kstars watchdog script added. #222
Conversation
|
Hi @efournie and thanks for the contribution. This looks very cool, do you mind if I re-use the idea directly in https://github.com/MattBlack85/astro_monitor ? The change you are providing has been long requested by users and I think they will love it |
|
Sure, no problem! I had not seen your astromonitor project, it looks interesting too! Until today I had no experience with qdbus at all but it is really neat and allows scripting of most of the kstars functionalities.
You can get a list of all main namespaces with "qdbus org.kde.kstars" and the namespace descriptions with for example "qdbus org.kde.kstars /KStars/Ekos", the self documentation is great. The classes are also accessible in python and probably most of the main languages too.
And thanks a lot for astroarch, I started astrophotography a few month ago and your distro on a raspberry pi is excellent!
|
| - `astro-rollback-full` => rollback automatically indi and kstars to the previous version | ||
| - `use-astro-bleeding-edge` => install bleeding edge packages for Kstars and INDI | ||
| - `use-astro-stable` => install stable packages for Kstars and INDI | ||
| - `kstars-watchdog` => starts Kstars and Ekos with the default profile. If the program is closed or crashes, it will restart automatically. If an ekos job file named default.esl is present in the home dir, it will automatically be started. |
There was a problem hiding this comment.
@efournie there is only a small gotcha, these commands are listed here cause they are found within zshrc so users can invoke them directly in the terminal. We may need to alias that command in zshrc to invoke your bash script
There was a problem hiding this comment.
I am currently trying to port it to python, will probably be much more flexible and make further development easier:
https://github.com/efournie/kstars-watchdog
It's not working 100% yet but should be soon
There was a problem hiding this comment.
The python version seems to work now, use or adapt whichever one you prefer!
There was a problem hiding this comment.
are you comfortable packaging python stuff? Ideally if you drop a setup.py I can package this directly for archlinux
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Thanks, sounds good! I will try to package it, never done it before but it should not be too complicated, especially with a single dependency.
I will first try to let it run one or two nights in order to check for unforeseen problems, just have to wait for a clear now!
2 participants
I had several times Kstars crashing during the night so I wrote a small bash script monitoring and restarting it if needed.
Ekos is also automatically restarted with the default profile and if a scheduler job file named default.esl is present in the astronaut home directory (can be a link to a file somewhere else), it will automatically be (re-)started.
The script can also be started when Kstars is already running.
I still haven't figured out why Kstars crashed but it may be due to the target moving behind obstacles, not sure though.