Some Active Pieces Maintenance

So after getting Active Pieces set up successfully, it started crashing on me. ChatGPT looked at the logs and suggested disabling “telemetry,” which seemed to be the culprit. I did that, and it ’s been running okay so far.

Just in case, I created a second Active Pieces flow: a job that runs every five minutes and calls a healthchecks.io URL to report everything is fine. If healthchecks doesn’t get a ping for more than five minutes, it will alert me so I can restart it.

I also updated my RSS -to-Social flow to notify me when the job runs successfully, so I don’t have to keep checking. I added a final step that sends a notification—how? Home Assistant. Since Home Assistant and Active Pieces run on the same server, I can call a Home Assistant webhook to trigger an automation that sends whatever notification I want. (Another benefit of self-hosting: no port forwarding headaches.) The nice thing is I have one Home Assistant automation that I can call from any Active Pieces flow with an arbitrary message.

Many more Active Pieces automations to come, I think…