Update Monitoring Script

Overview

This Python script monitors the availability of system updates, upgrades, and live patches on a DietPi system. It periodically checks specific files and sends notifications through various messaging services when updates are available.

Features

• Update Monitoring: Checks for available updates, upgrades, and live patches.
• Real-time notifications with support for multiple accounts via:
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • Slack
  • Gotify
  • Ntfy
  • Pushbullet
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.chat
  • Matrix
  • Mattermost
  • Pumble
  • Flock
  • Zulip
  • Apprise
  • Custom webhook
• Dynamic Configuration: Load settings from a JSON configuration file.
• Polling Period: Adjustable interval for checking updates.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• Docker installed and running
• Dependencies: requests, schedule

Edit crontab (crontab -e)

0 */1 * * * /boot/dietpi/dietpi-update 2

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/2boom-ua/update_check.git
cd dockcheck

Install required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit config.json:

You can use any name and any number of records for each messaging platform configuration, and you can also mix platforms as needed. The number of message platform configurations is unlimited.

Configuration examples for Telegram, Matrix, Apprise, Pumble, Mattermost, Discord, Ntfy, Gotify, Zulip, Flock, Slack, Rocket.Chat, Pushover, Pushbullet

    "CUSTOM_NAME": {
        "ENABLED": false,
        "WEBHOOK_URL": [
            "first url",
            "second url",
            "...."
        ],
        "HEADER": [
            {first JSON structure},
            {second JSON structure},
            {....}
        ],
        "PYLOAD": [
            {first JSON structure},
            {second JSON structure},
            {....}
        ],
        "FORMAT_MESSAGE": [
            "markdown",
            "html",
            "...."
        ]
    },

Item	Required	Description
ENABLED	true/false	Enable or disable Custom notifications
WEBHOOK_URL	url	The URL of your Custom webhook
HEADER	JSON structure	HTTP headers for each webhook request. This varies per service and may include fields like {"Content-Type": "application/json"}.
PAYLOAD	JSON structure	The JSON payload structure for each service, which usually includes message content and format. Like as {"body": "message", "type": "info", "format": "markdown"}
FORMAT_MESSAGE	markdown, html, text, simplified	Specifies the message format used by each service, such as markdown, html, or other text formatting.

• markdown - a text-based format with lightweight syntax for basic styling (Pumble, Mattermost, Discord, Ntfy, Gotify),
• simplified - simplified standard Markdown (Telegram, Zulip, Flock, Slack, RocketChat).
• html - a web-based format using tags for advanced text styling,
• text - raw text without any styling or formatting.

 "DEFAULT_DOT_STYLE": true,
 "MIN_REPEAT": 1

Item	Required	Description
DEFAULT_DOT_STYLE	true/false	Round/Square dots.
MIN_REPEAT	1	Set the poll period in minutes. Minimum is 1 minute.

Running as a Linux Service

You can set this script to run as a Linux service for continuous monitoring.

Create a systemd service file:

nano /etc/systemd/system/update_check.service

Add the following content:

[Unit]
Description=check update aviable
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/update_check/update_check.py
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable update_check.service

systemctl start update_check.service

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the MIT License for details.

Author

• 2boom - GitHub