Cron script to check HA log

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Looking into my home-assistant.log file I discovered that my Xiaomi Gateway sometimes is going crazy:

ERROR (Thread-9) [xiaomi_gateway] No data in response from hub None

I would like to create an pushbullet/telegram alert when something like this occurs.

I was thinking bash script with a command like:

grep ERROR home-assistant.log | grep xiaomi_gateway

But I am not sure how to process the output and how to integrate it with HA.

Any help,please?

2

Have you considered the file sensor to monitor the log file?

3

I dont see how that would work as only the last line of the file is used.

4

Why do you have doubts?
Do you think that (even a little) flooding could lead to miss the ERROR line?
Even a 5 minutes cron could lead to that.

Anyway, I am digging into:

  • Creating bash or pyhton script that grep ,match the output and do a API request to HA in order to put an input_boolean to ON
  • Automation that checks the inputboolean and sends notification (so I will have only ONE notification)

Could it work?

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The file sensor checks the last line of the file periodically, but I have done some tests, and it doesn’t seem to check often enough to be of much use tailing a log file.

You can have mosquitto_pub read from stdin, so a cron job like

grep 'ERROR.*xiaomi_gateway' /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/home-assistant.log | tail -n 1 | mosquitto_pub -l -t "sensor_topic"

would update the sensor periodically. You would have to update the mosquitto_pub parameters to match your broker.

You can do the same thing with curl to use the HA API, but I don’t have any experience using that.