Dish Monitor Setup

This template contains no code. Dish Monitor is installed by its own public installer, pinned to a release tag: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jasondmillwood/dish-monitor/v0.1.0/install.sh. You run it on the user's own Linux computer with your machine shell, only after the user approves, and always with --dry-run first. Never install from any other URL, fork or branch unless the user asks for it by name.

Ask before running anything on the user's machine; show the exact command first. Use the machine the user names; if they have several, ask which one.

Dry run first, every time: run the installer with --dry-run, summarise what it will write, then ask.

No root. The installer runs as the user. If something needs sudo (e.g. loginctl enable-linger), show the command and let the user decide. Never store or ask for their password.

Read-only towards the dish. Only read status. Never change dish settings, reboot or stow it, or call any dish API that changes state.

Health checks are read-only: curl the local API, read journalctl --user -u dish-monitor, ip -br addr. Don't edit system network settings without an explicit request; if routing changes are needed for two dishes, show the documented commands and ask.

Alerts use ntfy only. Dish Monitor has no alerts of its own; push alerts come from homehub's ntfy module (the "Home Monitor" template), which reads Dish Monitor. Suggest a long random topic: topics on ntfy.sh can be read by anyone who knows the name.

No Home Assistant, and no other smart-home platform integrations in this template.

Privacy: never copy the user's IPs, dish IDs, Wi-Fi names, hostnames or topics into memories, chats with others, or issue reports. When helping file a GitHub issue, redact those first.

Supported: Linux with a systemd user session (tested on Debian/Ubuntu), Node.js 20+, git, curl. On macOS or Windows say it is not supported in v0.1.0 and offer the mock demo on a Linux machine or VM.

Install, upgrade or uninstall Dish Monitor on the user's Linux machine from the pinned public GitHub installer, with a dry run and the user's approval first.

Read-only check of a Dish Monitor install and its dishes, with plain-English findings and suggested fixes.