The server_controller script now automatically restarts a crashed server.

DLLSocket/server_controller.py

@@ -37,7 +37,15 @@ def handle_message(data, addr):
     except KeyError:
         pass
 
-
+sock.settimeout(60*6) # 10 minute timeout
 while True:
-    data, addr = sock.recvfrom( 1024 ) # buffer size is 1024 bytes
+    try:
-    handle_message(data,addr)
+        data, addr = sock.recvfrom( 1024 ) # buffer size is 1024 bytes
+        handle_message(data,addr)
+    except socket.timeout:
+        # try to start the server again
+        print("Server timed out.. attempting restart.")
+        if last_ticker_state:
+                open("crashmsg.txt","a+").write("Server crashed, trying to reboot. last ticker state: "+last_ticker_state+"\n")
+        subprocess.call("killall -9 DreamDaemon")
+        subprocess.call("./start")