#RouterBooter Primarily designed to reboot Ratio's Virgin Media Business router when it crashes.

Ratio's RouterBooter will periodically ping an IP address. If a response is not received, it will reboot your router via a Belkin Wemo into which your Virgin router is plugged. The script then waits for a predetermined amount of time before continuing its checks.

##Installation Requires NodeJS for the tweeter script. If the tweeter is not required, comment out this line: CRASHNO=$CRASHNO node tweeter in routerBooter.sh, by adding a hash to the beginning.

Requires Ouimeaux to control the Belkin Wemo.

Copy twitConfig.example.js to twitConfig.js and add your twitter access keys

Copy pingHost.example to pingHost and replace the contents with your own IP address

Once Ouimeaux and NodeJS are installed, run npm install in the root directory to install the twitter module for Node.

Works best on a linux machine (or a Raspberry Pi, which is what we are using).

Note: We have a second internet connection, to which we failover when Virgin goes down. This is the connection that the tweeter uses to tweet. If you don't have an active connection at the time the tweet is attempted, the tweet will fail, but the script will continue to run.

All of the following commands assume you have a terminal window open at the root directory of this project.

###To run routerBooter in the foreground ./routerBooter.sh

###To run routerBooter in the background ./startRouterBooter.sh

This will log all output to routerBooter.log

Viewing output of routerBooter running in the background

tail -f routerBooter.log

##Managing background process ###To view routerBooter processes running in the background ps aux | grep "routerBooter"

###To kill a routerBooter If for whatever reason you need to restart routerBooter running in the background, you can kill the processes via the PID visible after running the above command. The second number shown in each column is the PID.

e.g. kill -9 1234