Site Status Blink1 Script

statusblinker.py

from blink1.blink1 import Blink1
import requests
import time

"""
I run this with a bash script, `something.sh`, which just runs it, and which will catch any errors that it can then email to me:
python3.6 statusblinker.py
"""

b1 = Blink1()
b1.fade_to_color(100,'blue')
sites = ("http://anysiteyouwant.com",
"http://coolsites.co"
)

try:
    r = requests.get("https://google.com")
    r.raise_for_status()
except:
    print("%s: Deskpi can't reach google or the internet." % (time.strftime('%x %X(%Z)')))
    exit()

all_good = None
for site in sites:
    r = requests.get(site)
    if not r:
        all_good = False
        print("%s: %s is offline" % (time.strftime('%x %X(%Z)'),r.url))
        break
    else:
        all_good=True

if all_good==False:
    b1.fade_to_color(100,'red')
else:
    b1.fade_to_color(100, 'green')