guiness;619418 Wrote: > I've had SvrPowerControl working well for months on my SBS on Windows 7 > Desktop. I have plugin autoupdate on and, recently, things seemed to > have fallen apart. I used to be able to have my SB go to sleep at night > and SPC would shut down and send the SB to mysqueezebox.com. That > doesn't seem to work any more plus I keep getting a dos window popup > every 60 seconds or so which is very annoying while working on the > windows machine. I don't see where this 60 second cycle is coming from. > Could recent changes have upset my equilibrium? *Re the flickering dos window (on Windows) every 60 seconds:* On windows, SrvrPowerCtrl gets the network I/O stats by running 'netstat -e' and then parsing the output. This has the side-effect of briefly showing that dos window.
Turn the network monitoring off in the SrvrPowerCtrl settings and you'll stop seeing them. I agree that it's annoying and otherwise spoils the appearance of things. Unfortunately, I couldn't find another mechanism to get that information. When I get some time, I'll write another external windows utility that will collect the stats without creating that console window. BTW, SrvrPowerCtrl uses the same sort of mechanism to collect the network stats on OSX. But on the mac, it all happens nicely and in the background without a console window popping up. Even with network monitoring turned off, SrvrPowerCtrl will still briefly pop open a console window just once when SBS first starts. In that case, SrvrPowerCtrl is running 'ipconfig /all' to get the mac address of the SBS server. I had it in there to provide a mechanism for iPeng and others to get the server's mac address...a mechanism that SBS doesn't provide. But iPeng and SqueezePad are now able to do this by, I assume, querying the arp cache on the iPad/iPhone. This is totally unnecessary now and I'll remove it from the SrvrPowerCtrl startup. *Re things seemed to have fallen apart:* I agree, and I'm reminded of a famous quote from Jim Hightower: "Where are we going? And what are we doing in this hand-basket?" But, to restore order to this little corner of the world, I suggest you try going to the SrvrPowerCtrl Settings page and click on the "Reset all settings back to default values" link at the bottom of the page. Please do let me know if that doesn't do the trick and we'll try to debug things further. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
