icecast-status-checker

A status checker for Icecast stream that can automatically run BUTT (Broadcasting Using This Tool, a software for streaming).

Need a configure.properties file in .jar path with:

BUTTPATH=/home/bin/butt
SERVERURL=http://<my-server-host>:<my-server-port>
STATUS=status-json.xsl
STREAM=http://<stream-host>:<stream-port>/<mount-point>

Compile the code and run as:

java -jar statuschecker.jar

Feature

• Checks is stream is up by calling status-json.xsl
• If stream is down, check if server is up
• If server is up, start BUTT
• If server is down, do nothing

Every transition is logged.

Tested on:

• Windows 7
• Windows 10
• Linux Fedora