Monit ignore pipes for some reason

I have Monit script to monitor my tvheadend service. To start the program I would like to use start command start program = "/etc/init.d/tvheadend start && /usr/bin/python /root/antik_epg/antik_xmltv.py | /usr/bin/socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/etc/tvheadend/epggrab/xmltv.sock" But for some reason the Monit ignores command after pipe. It just starts tvheadend and only runs /usr/bin/python /root/antik_epg/antik_xmltv.py. It does not run /usr/bin/socat - UNIX-CONNECT:/etc/tvheadend/epggrab/xmltv.sock How to run all commands? I have tried to run custom scripts: start program = "/bin/ash -c '/root/tvheadend_start.sh'" But the result was same. The command runs perfectly directly from bash. Thanks for your help.