<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> </p><p>Without knowing anything about what hardware you are using, all I can offer at present is an anecdote.</p><p>My greenhouse monitoring computer, which controls the heating in there, is monitored by another machine indoors, which uses shell commands to see if the program that should be running is running. If not, it sends a message to my phone, via Pushover.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/RaspBerryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RaspBerryPi</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> </p><p>Code available if wanted...</p>