The Triple Pat Check-In Service

Once you have installed our phone app, you will have a UUID for your timer and a series of URLs you can use to check-in that everything is fine. Your UUID will look something like:

  550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

Your URL will look something like:

  https://triplepat.com/api/v1/checkin/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

You then add a line to the end of a shell script that tests out your alert system with a cron job:

  curl https://triplepat.com/api/v1/checkin/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

You then configure the app to alert if it has been too long since the last check-in. That's it!

This example UUID here is one UUID Wikipedia uses as an example. We have included this UUID in our system. Because we are making it public here, anyone can update it. If you are building a system and want to have a test UUID, feel free to use this one, but be aware that everyone else can use it as well.

There is, of course, a lot more going on behind the scenes (see our design for the gory details). But we try to hide all of that from you in an effort to let you just add one check-in command to your systems and then get the benefit of a radically simple independent alert system.