Astro monitor

A small program that can help you with your astro session. The main functionality is the watchdog; if astromonitor notices Kstars is dead il will send a request to notify you via telegram. The other cool feature is the backup, astromonitor can backup:

• your INDI configuration for your devices
• the profile containing your equipment and setup
• PHD2 profile
• generic Kstars option (theme, colors, etc.)

you can restore the backup on an other PC or when installing the suite again.

Have a look at how it works

astromonitor_gh.mp4

Install

you trust me? run the following command

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MattBlack85/astro_monitor/main/install.sh | sh

sudo will be needed as last step to move astromonitor to /usr/local/bin

How to use astromonitor

Using astromonitor is easy, just follow these instruction

First step - obtain a token using telegram

On telegram, look for @AstroMonitorBot (the icon is the bubble nebula from hubble) and send a /register command, it will answer with a token, store it in a safe place, that's your key for the backups.

Make a backup

Open a terminal and run astromonitor --do-backup XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX paste your key obtained in the previous step instead of XXXXXXXXXX

Retrieve a previously made backup

Open a terminal and run astromonitor --retrieve-backup XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX paste your key obtained in the previous step instead of XXXXXXXXXX

Monitor Kstars during a session

Open a terminal and run astromonitor --kstars XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX paste your key obtained in the previous step instead of XXXXXXXXXX

This will start monitoring Kstars and if it crashes, it will send you a notification via telegram

List of all functionalities:

you can obtain the same list by running astromonitor --help, here what we actually support:

• --kstars monitor Kstars and send a telegram notification if it crashes during a session
• --do-backup make a backup of the Kstars database and INDI devices configuration and store it remotely
• --retrieve-backup restore the previously saved backup
• --fd-monitor monitor file descriptors used to check if there is any leak
• --system-monitor monitor system resources (CPU and RAM) usage and log it

The main folder where you'll find the logs is ~/.local/share/astromonitor/logs

Compile it and run

If you want to compile it by yourself, the project is pure Rust, you just need the rust toolchain (see https://rustup.rs/), then clone this repo with git clone https://github.com/MattBlack85/astro_monitor or git clone git@github.com:MattBlack85/astro_monitor cd into the folder cd astro_monitor and then cargo build --release. You will find the compiled program then under target/release/astromonitor you can move the program around (for example /usr/local/bin)