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nixconfig/modules/home/base/network-watchdog.nix
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{ lib, config, pkgs, ... }:
let
cfg = config.services.network-watchdog;
watchdog = "${pkgs.custom.network-watchdog}/bin/network-watchdog";
units = map (name: "${name}.service") cfg.units;
in {
# User services that only make sense while online: GUI clients that hold a
# socket to a server (jellyfin-mpv-shim, nextcloud-client). Their upstream
# units have no network ordering (network-online.target is a system target,
# out of reach for user units), so they happily start while offline —
# silently dead — and nothing notices a connection dropped by a network
# blip. Gate each start on the network being up, restart on failure, and let
# a watchdog catch the "up but not connected" state that systemd can't see.
# See pkgs.custom.network-watchdog.
options.services.network-watchdog.units = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
default = [ ];
example = [ "jellyfin-mpv-shim" ];
description = "User services (no .service suffix) to gate on the network and keep connected.";
};
config = lib.mkIf (cfg.units != [ ]) {
systemd.user.services = lib.genAttrs cfg.units (name: {
Service = {
ExecStartPre = "${watchdog} wait-online ${name}.service";
TimeoutStartSec = "infinity"; # stay in start-pre until the network is back
Restart = lib.mkDefault "on-failure";
RestartSec = lib.mkDefault 5;
};
}) // {
network-watchdog = {
Unit = {
Description = "Restart network services that are up but not connected";
After = units;
};
Service = {
Type = "oneshot";
ExecStart = "${watchdog} check ${lib.concatStringsSep " " units}";
};
};
};
systemd.user.timers.network-watchdog = {
Unit.Description = "Periodic health check for network services";
Timer = {
OnActiveSec = "60s";
OnUnitActiveSec = "60s";
};
Install.WantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
};
};
}