Motioneyeos - Rebooting

[Barry Gilchrist]

I have two PI's uploading images to GoogleDrive.

However, I noticed recently that one had stopped uploading the files. The files existed on the PI, but had failed to upload.

The test button for GoogleDrive just sat there with the 'hourglass' spinning - I had to disconnect and reconnect the browser to get a response.

However, after a reboot, the upload to GoogleDrive started working again!

Then the second PI had a similar issue - weird, right!

This has only happened once, for each PI - so far.

I don't imagine that this issue is going to be easy to identify/fix - especially as it might have nothing to do with MOTIONEYEOS.

So, as a preventative measure (workaround), is there a way for MOTIONEYEOS to be configured to reboot once a day?

Or, is there a way for an external machine - say a third PI - to send a reboot instruction once a day?

I'm using two versions of MOTIONEYEOS : an older one 20190911 (PI3) and a newer one 20200606 (PI ZeroW).

Thanks in advance

Regards

Barry

[Kevin Shumaker]

Yes, there are a number of ways to do this:

If the gdrive connection gets dropped, but all else is working you can turn on under Expert Settings, Connectivity Watch and place the https://drive.google.com  root site, and start with the default settings.(may have to change the port to 443 (https))

This will force a reboot if connectivity fails.

You can set a cron job to force a reboot every (x) amount of time:

ssh into the Pi, and type the following:

EDITOR=nano crontab -e [enter]

add the following text:

* 2 * * * reboot [enter] [ctrl][x][y] to save

This will trigger the reboot command every day at 2am. If you wanted to trigger every 4 hours, you'd use:

* 2,6,10,14,18,22 * * * reboot

There are a number of other ways, but these 2 usually cover it.

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[Kevin Shumaker]

There is an excellent resource for motionEyeOS at

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki

and for motionEye on other OSs at

https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneye/wiki

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:36 AM Barry Gilchrist <barr...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Barry Gilchrist]

Many thanks for quick response... much appreciated. 

[Kevin Shumaker]

Let me know if this resolves your issue.