How To Set Up Uptime Monitoring For Your Home Bitcoin Mining Setup

Heres how to set it up.Requirements: Umbrel node running with Uptime Kuma downloaded, on the same network that the miners you wish to monitor are onTelegram5 minutes of your timeStart by downloading Uptime Kuma from the Umbrel app shop and then open it up on a computer system on the same network as your Umbrel and your miner(s). “Heartbeat Retry Interval” represents the quantity of time Uptime Kuma will wait between reattempted pings to your maker after a preliminary stopped working ping.Now, for the Telegram notifications.In the leading right corner of the “Add New Monitor” form, there is a “Setup Notification” button.Click that button and youll open the notice settings form.From here, select Telegram from the dropdown list and pick a name for your Telegram alert. The bot will state you are done, and offer you with an API key.Take that API key and paste it into the “Bot Token” field on the Uptime Kuma alert form.Click the link listed below the empty chat ID field to get the chat ID information.That link need to take you to a brand-new web page for the API which looks like a bunch of shadowy super coder text but all you require from here is the chat ID. Send out a test message to whatever your newly-created bot name is before clicking the link listed below the empty chat ID field.Paste that chat ID into the Telegram notification kind on Uptime Kuma and hit Test. You can likewise monitor uptime on any surfing gadget that can access your Umbrel through the Uptime Kuma web GUI.Happy Hashing.

Umbrel continues to onboard incredible tasks to their platform– most just recently an application called “Uptime Kuma.” Self-described as “an expensive self-hosted tracking tool,” Uptime Kuma is a project by Louis Lam that endeavors to deliver a self-hosted variation of “Uptime Robot.” For those of you who have actually begun home mining and dream to set up a self-hosted service to remote uptime monitoring (with Telegram notices!), Uptime Kuma on your Umbrel is fantastic. Heres how to set it up.Requirements: Umbrel node keeping up Uptime Kuma downloaded, on the same network that the miners you wish to keep an eye on are onTelegram5 minutes of your timeStart by downloading Uptime Kuma from the Umbrel app store and then open it up on a computer system on the same network as your Umbrel and your miner(s). Click “Add New Monitor” in the top left corner of the page.Fill out the form as applicable.For “Friendly Name” you can put something like “Garage S9” for instance. For the URL, put in the IP address of your miner such as “http://192.168.0.xxx”. I hope its safe to assume you understand where to discover this info if you already have a miner running on your house network. Set the “Heartbeat Interval” to your liking. This is how often Uptime Kuma will ping your machine to inspect that it is online. “Retries” represents the variety of times Uptime Kuma will reattempt to ping your maker after an initial stopped working ping. “Heartbeat Retry Interval” represents the amount of time Uptime Kuma will wait in between reattempted pings to your machine after an initial stopped working ping.Now, for the Telegram notifications.In the leading right corner of the “Add New Monitor” type, there is a “Setup Notification” button.Click that button and youll open the alert settings form.From here, select Telegram from the dropdown list and choose a name for your Telegram alert. Once again, you can put something like “Garage S9”, for example. Youll need a Telegram Bot Token, which you can obtain from here: https://t.me/BotFather. In the Telegram chat with the BotFather, type “/ newbot” and hit go into. It will respond with a couple of questions: “Alright, a new bot. How are we going to call it? Please select a name for your bot.” Here, again, you can put something like “Garage S9”. “Good. Now lets pick a username for your bot. It must end in bot . Like this, for example: TetrisBot or tetris_bot”. Here, again, you can put something like “Garage S9 Bot”. The bot will say you are done, and provide you with an API key.Take that API key and paste it into the “Bot Token” field on the Uptime Kuma alert form.Click the link listed below the empty chat ID field to get the chat ID information.That link must take you to a new webpage for the API which looks like a lot of shadowy extremely coder text however all you require from here is the chat ID. For me, this was the 8th row of text on the page. Keep in mind: You require to send a Telegram message to your bot to start the chat and generate a chat ID before the chat ID will show at the link in the type. Send a test message to whatever your newly-created bot name is prior to clicking the link listed below the empty chat ID field.Paste that chat ID into the Telegram alert kind on Uptime Kuma and hit Test. You must get a Telegram message from your newly produced bot. Save the notice type on Uptime Kuma and then scroll down and save the “Add New Monitor” form.Boom! You ought to have a functioning Telegram notification bot for your miners if that all worked. If you get a Telegram message from your bot, test this by detaching for a couple minutes and see. You can also keep track of uptime on any browsing gadget that can access your Umbrel through the Uptime Kuma web GUI.Happy Hashing. This is a guest post by Scott Marmoll. Viewpoints expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily show those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.