Uptime Buddy has been renamed to Uptime Mate.

Uptime Mate is an uptime monitoring tool for your Apple Watch, designed to keep you informed about the status of your services. Uptime Mate, requires a lightweight docker backend to run.

IMPORTANT!

The update 1.1.0 of the app and the backend is not backwards compatible. Make sure you update the iOS-App to 1.1.0 from the AppStore and pull the lastest docker image from: schech1/uptime-buddy-api:latest

• Added an option to exclude paused monitors to the list. The setting is available in the info menu on the AppleWatch App.

• Support for MFA implemented. Uptime Kuma instances with 2FA activated can now be monitored too.

To add support for MFA, add the MFA variable to the docker-compose and turn on MFA in the iOS-App and apply the authenticator code.

Example

version: '3.8'

services:
  uptime-buddy-api:

    image: schech1/uptime-buddy-api:latest
    ports:
      - "5005:5005"
    environment:
      - UPTIME_KUMA_URL=http://192.168.1.20:3002/
      - USERNAME=admin
      - PASSWORD=admin
      - TOKEN=gkd4el
      - MFA=true/false

Be sure to pull the latest docker image

The current version (1.1.0) in the App Store is compatible with schech1/uptime-buddy-api:latest

For authentication, start the Uptime Mate iOS-App before you deploy the docker-container. On first start, a token will be generated and displayed in the app. Add the token to the docker-compose file or docker-run command. Then deploy the container as described below.

Before deploying the Docker container, open the Uptime Mate companion app on your iPhone. Follow the these steps to configure Uptime Mate:

• Generate the token
• Enter your backend address (Address where you host this container, including the port (e.g.http://your-server-ip:5005))
• Test the backend
• Copy the generated token into your docker-compose.yml and deploy it.
• Send the setting to the Apple Watch. It will display your monitors from Uptime Kuma in the Apple Watch app
• Check out the Watch Face complications

Uptime Mate requires a running instance of Uptime Kuma!

Be sure to set up Uptime Kuma correctly and provide the address, username and password of your Uptime Kuma instance to the docker compose file.

If you disabled auth in Uptime Kuma, remove the two lines from the compose-file entirely:

- USERNAME=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME
- PASSWORD=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD

Follow the steps below to set up the backend for Uptime Mate.

Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content to deploy the backend:

services:
  uptime-buddy-api:
    image: schech1/uptime-buddy-api:latest
    ports:
      - "5005:5005"
    environment:
      - UPTIME_KUMA_URL=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_URL # e.g. http://192.168.1.34:3002/
      - USERNAME=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME # Optional: remove line if auth is disabled in Uptime Kuma
      - PASSWORD=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD # Optional: remove line if auth is disabled in Uptime Kuma
      - TOKEN=SECRET_TOKEN # Created by iOS-App
      - MFA=true/false

Docker image on DockerHub

The docker image supports amd64 and arm64 architecture.

Tested on Raspberry Pi 5 and Intel NUC 10.

Replace the environment variables with your actual Uptime Kuma URL, username, password and the generated token.

Save the docker-compose.yml file.

Run the following command in the directory containing the docker-compose.yml file:

docker-compose up -d

This command will pull the necessary Docker image and start the backend service on port 5005.

Hint: Remove USERNAME and PASSWORD, if auth is disabled in Uptime Kuma

docker run -d --name uptime-buddy-api -p 5005:5005 -e UPTIME_KUMA_URL=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_URL -e USERNAME=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME -e PASSWORD=YOUR_UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD -e TOKEN=YOUR_TOKEN schech1/uptime-buddy-api:latest

Uptime Mate consists of an iOS app and an Apple Watch app. The iOS app is needed to set up the backend address and token. When the iOS app is installed, the Apple Watch app can be installed via the Watch app of the iPhone.

Uptime Mate comes with Complication and SmartStack support. The current update frequency of the Widgets is 15 minutes. In future versions this will frequency will be individually adjustable, to extend battery life of the Apple Watch.

The following SF Symbols are used to illustrate the monitor type:

Uptime Mate supports different complications on the WatchFace.

Circular

Corner

Rectangular Big

Rectangular Small

Rectangular Dashed

Circular Dashed

Uptime Mate does not save, share or forward any data. The data that is fetched from the backend is only displayed on your device. The Apple Watch or iOS apps do not store any data locally on the devices, except the address of your backend. This is needed to keep setting over reboots.

• API token for backend authorization
• UI improvements on iOS app
• More Symbols for monitor types
• Nice AppStore page
• Better looking complications
• Better user feedback when backend is down
• Communicate with Uptime Kuma directly (no additional docker container)

This project is based on Uptime Kuma and uptime-kuma-api.

Uptime Kuma: A self-hosted monitoring tool to monitor uptime for websites, applications and services.

uptime-kuma-api: A Python API for Uptime Kuma.

Contributions are welcome.

If you enjoy using this app, please consider leaving a Rating on the App Store!

If you encounter any issues or have questions, please open an issue on this GitHub repository.