Many may already be doing this or not care but it has saved my butt a couplet times.
Windows (of course not HS) from time to time will lock up. HS is a mission critical app [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I implemented a watch dog timer, which keeps and eye on the HA box and if it is locked then reboots it. My method was crude but worked. Then I came across this article in HomeToys which talks about a nice algorithm to do this.
Essentially, the Ocelot sets a variable every 10mins, HS triggers an event and resets the variable to 9. If Ocelot seens the change within 30 seconds, then it resets the 10min timer and starts over.
If not then it sets another variable and checks again in 30 secs (this is a just incase HS is really busy timer). If the variable is not reset then it flips a relay on the Secu16 wired to the reset switch on the HA server (you could prob use an X10 device here but then that is not all that reliable) and reboots it.
There is some other logic there to handle the serve maintenance times.
Check it out and hope this helps some people!
http://www.hometoys.com/tips/tips25.htm
- Tom
Windows (of course not HS) from time to time will lock up. HS is a mission critical app [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
I implemented a watch dog timer, which keeps and eye on the HA box and if it is locked then reboots it. My method was crude but worked. Then I came across this article in HomeToys which talks about a nice algorithm to do this.
Essentially, the Ocelot sets a variable every 10mins, HS triggers an event and resets the variable to 9. If Ocelot seens the change within 30 seconds, then it resets the 10min timer and starts over.
If not then it sets another variable and checks again in 30 secs (this is a just incase HS is really busy timer). If the variable is not reset then it flips a relay on the Secu16 wired to the reset switch on the HA server (you could prob use an X10 device here but then that is not all that reliable) and reboots it.
There is some other logic there to handle the serve maintenance times.
Check it out and hope this helps some people!
http://www.hometoys.com/tips/tips25.htm
- Tom
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