Raspberry Pi - Asset Restart

[kgibb01]

I have Asset running on A Raspberry Pi 4b (Bookworm)

I start Asset as suggested from boot using crontab

reboot /home/pi/bin/AssetUPnP/AssetUPnP

What is the best method of restarting Asset without rebooting?
Or can it be run as a service? If so have you got instructions?

Kevan

[Spoon]

If you have it on a reboot crontab, why do you need to restart it?

There is no such thing as service running on Linux.

[kgibb01]

Very picky! OK a "systemd" process.

I have other packages that run on this server and would rather not have to restart them, if Asset fails.

Anyway why should you reboot all the time, that is for Windows!!!

[tew42]

Since I set up Asset UPnP in a container without crontab, I wrote up a custom .service file that then also confers systemctl start/stop/restart functionality. Not tested for very long, but seems to work.

Be sure to modify user/group for your system

[Unit]
Description=Asset UPnP Media Server
After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=<user>
Group=<group>
ExecStart=/home/<user>/bin/AssetUPnP/AssetUPnP
ExecStop=kill $MAINPID
ExitType=cgroup
KillMode=control-group
TimeoutStopSec=30
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target