Restarting Homeseer on Linux - is systemctl restart ok?

[mitchmitchell1616]

Hello,

I am running homeseer on Ubuntu 18.04 and I was wondering if it is ok/safe to restart homeseer running under systemd using the systemctl restart command?

Thanks!

Mitch

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[zwolfpack]

Depends on your systemd script. HS3 doesn't behave as a proper service application in that it doesn't perform a clean shutdown upon receipt of SIGTERM -- instead it exits instantly.

See https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...ge#post1250541

The homeseer.service script, in conjunction with the hs3stop.sh script will do what you want.

[bdickhaus]

Mitch,

I am also running HomeSeer on Ubuntu 18.04. You should be OK using systemctl restart, just make sure that there is a long enough timeout in the systemd HomeSeer unit definition to let HomeSeer shut down on its own. The potential issue is that it doesn't shut down before the timeout and systemd will kill it, which could result in database problems. Although I've never had this happen and I used to use systemctl to shut it down all the time.

To be extra safe I usually manually shut it down. I start it with screen so that I can connect via screen and do the shutdown from the console. Then I know it has shut down properly.

This is what my HomeSeer.service unit file looks like:

[Unit]
Description=HomeSeer
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/HomeSeer
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -S HomeSeer -d -m ./go
ExecStop=/usr/local/HomeSeer/stop_homeseer.sh
TimeoutStopSec=120
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Bill

[mitchmitchell1616]

Thanks to you both! I will be modifying my .service script to support properly shutting down now. I also see on that thread zwolfpack posted that someone got the Razberry zwave board working -- now I'll have to go look at that since I have one on a spare Rpi laying around.

[Guest]

this is how I do it :

/hs3.service:

[Unit]
Description=HomeSeer HS3 Home Automation Server
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/HomeSeer
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono /HomeSeer/HSConsole.exe --log
ExecStop=/HomeSeer/stop_homeseer.sh
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutStopSec=90

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/HomeSeer/stop_homeseer.sh :

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/curl  'http://127.0.0.1/LinuxTools' -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8' --data 'ConfirmShutdownhs=Yes' --compressed
sleep 30s

[mitchmitchell1616]

Looking at stop_homeseer.sh and hs3stop.sh I realize I need to do some serious studying up on curl! LOL
Thanks!