Automated Sage Server Restarts

[kevine]

Since the implementation of plugin installation via UI and the SageTV server restart requests in the UI, I would like to request a new feature. When you get prompted to restart, it would really be nice if there were 2 additional options. 1 would be an automated restart at the next time there are no recordings happening. A second would be an automated restart overnight or at a particular date/time. Seems to me this should be easy to implement. I realize they have locked down the code for 7.0 and are only doing bug fixes but maybe 7.1.

[Slugger]

I've got a little java program that does this... I run it from cron on Linux or Task Scheduler on Windows and it just polls the sagetv server every 5 mins checking to see if a reboot is necessary and if it is it then checks if there's a free 15 mins available to do a reboot. If so, it restarts the Sage server (just the Sage app, not the actual whole system reboot). It requires the sagex-api and RMI must be enabled.

I could probably clean it up and make it available, if interested.

[owilsky]

Oh yes, I am also interested in that. Would it be possible to add an option to also reboot the whole machine?

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by owilsky

Oh yes, I am also interested in that. Would it be possible to add an option to also reboot the whole machine?

Let me clean up what's there first and get that out then I'll take feature requests. It was never meant to be a released plugin type of thing just something I whipped up for myself, but I'll clean it up and make it available.

[kevine]

Originally Posted by Slugger

Let me clean up what's there first and get that out then I'll take feature requests. It was never meant to be a released plugin type of thing just something I whipped up for myself, but I'll clean it up and make it available.

Thanks, Slugger. I agree it probably did not make sense before. But before, I had to set aside a time I was going to work on plugins for install and update when nobody was on the system. Now that installation like this is so easy, it only makes sense to make the reboot/restart as easy too.

Great suggestion on the reboot option too. Although, I have a weird problem where my NIC card will alternate 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps after each reboot. So in order to keep 1 Gbps, I have to reboot twice. Have not found a solution to that yet.

[deanm]

My solution is not automated but does the trick. You have to do it manually. I run a headless server and miss the Other Program pluggin from SageMC where it I used to run scripts to reboot the server.. So wrote my own for v7 to reboot my server, shut it down etc. Will develop it more if there is intrest. It runs scripts on the server. At the moment the file paths are hard coded. But just could be easily changed.

Dean

[Slugger]

Executable jar for auto detected restarts now available.