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+* Watchdog to take care of reliabilty issues on AMBEd as written by LX1IQ
+*
+*
+*************************************************
+* In your XLXD instance...
+* Copy xlxd to /etc.init.d/
+*************************************************
+* In your AMBEd instance
+*copy ambed.service to /etc/systemd/system/
+*copy watchdog to /ambed/
+*************************************************
+* xlxd executable must be in /xlxd/ folder
+* ambed executable must be in /ambed/ folder
+*************************************************
+* possible options:
+*
+* #systemctl start ambed        /starts ambed
+* #systemctl status ambed       /shows status of ambed
+* #systemctl stop ambed         /stops ambed
+* # systemctl restart ambed     /restarts ambed
+*
+* automatically get it to start on boot:
+* #systemctl enable ambed
+*
+*************************************************
+* If your usb port gets unresponsive and you get some persistent timeouts,
+* the watchdog script restarts the ambed service.
+* You can run it every 5 minutes by a cronjob.
+* 
+* */5 * * * * /ambed/./watchdog >> /ambed/watchdog.log
+*
+***************************************************