Serviio

Hello, I'm having a problem that I hope someone else has run into and come up with a solution. I'm running Serviio 1.1 under Windows 7 64bit. Everything was running fine under version 0.6, but since upgrading to first 1.01 and now 1.1, I have to restart the Serviio service every time the PC comes out of sleep mode. This started immediately after upgrading to 1.01. I have not tried reverting back to 0.6, but am about to. I was hoping that upgrading to 1.1 might solve the issue, but no luck.

After coming out of sleep, the service appears to be running as indicated in the console, but none of my devices can connect to it. If I stop and restart the service, then everything works fine up until the PC goes back to sleep again. Then I have to hoof it back up stairs and manually restart the service. This problem has made what I used to consider one of the best DLNA servers that I had come across into a major pain that I am about to give up on.

Any help that you can lend would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

I can confirm this behavior is happening for me as well.

Windows 7 32-bit

After waking the computer from sleep mode, all indications from the Console and from Windows Services indicates all is well. However Serviio does not show up on my devices. I usually exit the Console and restart the service through services.msc to resolve the issue.

I can't confirm as I don't sleep my servers, but instead of "running upstairs to reset the service" maybe you could use a smart phone app like "ServiiDroid" to restart the service until a fix is found?

I confirm this behavior is happening for me too. Who knows it can be fixed?

The only way to do that is deleting Serviio icon from Autostart !

Same issue here.. On win7 and Vista. Tversity works fine, but Serviio needs a service restart to appear

I'm also experiencing this problem on Windows 7 since upgrading from version 0.6. Will there be a fix rolled out soon?

there is no built-in sleep mode support in Serviio. There is a ticket for it. If it ever worked, it was by chance.

I've been running into this as well, and don't want my wife and kid to suffer through the my workday because of it, and also don't want to disable sleep, because money.

I put together a scheduled task in Windows 7 as follows, which will restart Serviio after resuming from sleep:

1. Create a new text file with the following two liner, and save it as C:\Scripts\Restart-Serviio.cmd:

2. Open Task Scheduler (hit Start, type it in)
-- Click Task Scheduler Library in the left pane
-- Click Create Basic Task in the Actions pane

3. Create the task
-- Name it what you want, such as Restart Serviio after waking from sleep, hit Next
-- For a Trigger, select When a specific event is logged, hit Next
-- Log: System, Source: Power-Troubleshooter, Event ID: 1, hit Next
-- For an Action, select Start a program, hit Next
-- Program/script: C:\Scripts\Restart-Serviio.cmd, hit Next
-- On the Finish page, check Open the Properties dialog for this task when I click Finish, hit Finish

4. Finishing steps
-- On the General tab, ensure the selected user account has sufficient privileges to restart services, and select Run whether user is logged on or not, Do not store password..., and Run with highest privileges
-- On the Conditions tab, deselect Start the task only if the computer is on AC power
-- Click OK

I hope this helps everyone, and that a real fix for this can go into a future release. I really love this product.

Excellent workaround for the issue. Having said that, since version 1.2.1 with its new strategy for recovering the bound IP address (which it loses during sleep), I haven't had a single problem with not recovering after sleep... but if it rears it's head again, I will certainly implement this as I know how annoying the troops get when there beloved server isn't up and running!

I wish I could say the same. I've experienced it for the past few releases, including the current one.


Truth!

Thanks for the detailed post with the workaround: jammoblammo

Thanks for this work around,but,it does not work for me,as Serviio is running after waking my laptop,but my devices lose it.It's not enough to restart the server through the console,I have to shut it all down in task manager.This is strange,as the previous version never did this.I recently reinstalled win 7,and installed current version 1.2.1. and that's when the trouble started. Needless to say,it's annoying as hell.

But that is what his workaround does, restarts the service which is the equivalent of what you're doing in task mgr. That isn't the same as restarting it from the console as you're stating.

I've just tried it and it brought it back online just fine.

This makes the whole app much more usable for me, so thanks very much indeed.

I'm glad I could help some folks!

maybe you should write that up in the wiki?

Confirm too. I had to return to version 1.2. Serviio 1.2.1. doesn't work after computer awake (win7 64-bit).

the work around didn't work for you?

Could it be a case of laptop bouncing from Default ip to bound ip when it comes back to life? I do not like to restart serviio because online lib contents take forever to parse and be ready for viewing in each subsequent restart. You guys may want give reg hack mentioned here http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?p=45912#p45912 a try - this tells PC to retain ip address even if the dhcp is not available.


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