Greetings,
I've got a few 3200acm devices I manage and I have an idea or looking for a solution to combine watchcat with advanced reboot. Currently watchcat will reboot my router when there is no internet detected after a few minutes but I want it to now also boot to my alternative partition after 3 consecutive watchcat reboots due to failed internet connectivity. This of course requires that your alternative partition is also setup accordingly and has this watchcat modification.
My idea is based on these multi partition linksys 3200acm routers that automatically reboot to the alternative partition if 3 unsuccessful bootup attempts occur and I want an option that extends that out to include internet outages. In the end they will ping back and forth from main/backup partitions if there is no internet connection detected.
I'm not the greatest programmer but as of now, I've thought of modifying watchcat to keep a log for each time a failed ping occurs and on the 6th mark (2 failed pings per reboot), run the command required to boot to the alternative partition and remove the marking file before rebooting. It's simple but i'd be willing to share it once i made it.