Computer reboot if feed offline

I'm fairly sure this is not new, but I use Outlook to reboot my computer if I receive an email that my feed is offline.. Works great.. If you need more info let me know...

How do use outlook email do reboot your computer?
kb0vwg
wqoi992

If my feed goes offline I fix it when I am home and got time. The world doesn't end if it is offline.

Kinda overdoing it to reboot a PC because a feed is down.

KB0VWG said:

How do use outlook email do reboot your computer?
kb0vwg
wqoi992

Click to expand...

I set up a rule/filter, to run a file .bat ("start" in outlook) if a particular email (the offline message at 15 minutes) is received. I have the .bat file below to shutdown and restart the computer...
(I can email you the rule,if needed but action is "start restart.bat" with the file in your user folder.


restart.bat
xcopy c:\Radiofeed-D\RadioFeed.cfg c:\radiofeedbuD /y
xcopy c:\Radiofeed-C\RadioFeed.cfg c:\radiofeedbuC /y
timeout /t 5
%systemroot%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 5

the first 2 lines do a backup of the config files before the shutdown but are not neeeded. I rrun a startup .bat to move the backup cfg files back to the original destination at reboot... Propabaly overkill.

I have the email sent to a generic gmail address but also not necesarily needed.