I rely on Nagios to monitor my smart home devices for me. I use it to get details on specific services and hosts and to notify me if any of them stop working or responding. One thing that’s always bothered me is that if Nagios stops running or if the Raspberry Pi it’s installed on stops working how will I know that it’s down? I don’t want to be in the dark and think that everything is fine. simplemonitor is the solution! Thanks to @jamesoff and his work on simplemonitor, I now have a reliable way to watch Nagios to make sure it doesn’t go belly up. The premise of simplemonitor is very much like Nagios. You first define a host, [Read More…]