dexcom_dumper: less verbosity on ConnectionError

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dexcom_reader/dexcom_dumper.py b/dexcom_reader/dexcom_dumper.py
index d479e5e..c9624d2 100644
--- a/dexcom_reader/dexcom_dumper.py
+++ b/dexcom_reader/dexcom_dumper.py
@@ -179,7 +179,11 @@ def poll():
                         print_verbose('Exiting.')
                         return
                 except:
-                        traceback.print_exc()
+                        # Check for requests.ConnectionError without necessarily importing requests
+                        if (str(sys.exc_info()[0]) == "<class 'requests.exceptions.ConnectionError'>"):
+                                print_verbose('Error: could not connect to remote host.')
+                        else:
+                                traceback.print_exc()
                         sleep_verbose(10)
 
 def poll_remote():