Simple script that checks the online status of a satnogs station and sends a pushover notification if it's offline, Put in crontab at whatever time interval works for (mine is setup for hourly use)

satnogs_station_monitor.py

# simple script that checks the online status of a satnogs station and sends a pushover notification if it's offline
# Put in crontab at whatever time interval works for (mine is setup for hourly use)
# 2019/01/08 - Tom Van den Bon (ZR6TG)

import requests
import httplib, urllib

STATION_ID=62
PUSHOVER_USER_KEY = "USERKEY"
PUSHOVER_API_KEY = "APIKEY"

r = requests.get('https://network.satnogs.org/api/stations/?client_version=&format=json&id=' + str(STATION_ID))

if r.status_code == 200:

    data = r.json()
    print data
    if data[0]["status"] != "Online":
        print "Station Offline"
        #send pushover message
        conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.pushover.net:443")
        conn.request("POST", "/1/messages.json",
        urllib.urlencode({
            "token": PUSHOVER_API_KEY ,
            "user": PUSHOVER_USER_KEY,
            "message": "Satnogs Station " + str(STATION_ID) + ", " + data[0]["name"] + " is Offline",
        }), { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" })
        conn.getresponse()
    else:
        print "Station Online"