cottage

A simple cottage health check web service that sends XMPP messages when my cottage hasn't reported in.

The router in my cottage runs a small cron job that only curls an URL on my web server every five minutes.

I created this program to track that the cottage still reports in now and then and, if not, warns me about it by sending me an XMPP message.

The program expects a config file in .cottage.json looking something like this:

{
 "listen": "127.0.0.1:8080",
 "jid": "your-automatic-friend@your.domain",
 "password": "secret",
 "skipverify": false,
 "destination": "your-own-xmpp-address@probably-on-your-cell-phone",
 "checktime": 15,
 "warningtime": 180,
 "remindertime": 180
}

It checks if the cottage (or whatever is supposed to hit the web server) every checktime minutes. If nothing has been reported in warningtime minutes it sends a warning over XMPP and reminds you every remindertime minutes.