Ensuring "service recovery" actually works...

[eli2k]

I had an incident this week where SageTV service seems to have crashed. I had check-boxed Enable Service Recovery, but it didn't seem to work at all, so I had to manually Disable/Enable the SageTV Service again. How do I ensure that if the service manages to go down, that the software continues to record on its own, be able to turn on the computer on its own, etc?

Thanks,
- Eli

[farfromuman]

Originally Posted by eli2k

I had an incident this week where SageTV service seems to have crashed. I had check-boxed Enable Service Recovery, but it didn't seem to work at all, so I had to manually Disable/Enable the SageTV Service again. How do I ensure that if the service manages to go down, that the software continues to record on its own, be able to turn on the computer on its own, etc?

Thanks,
- Eli

I had this problem before when using the sleep function in Vista. In my case if the PC woke at 8:57 to record something at 9:00 and if the service happened to crash right at the start of a recoding then windows would immediately go back to sleep and the service would not recover.
This happens in Vista because the sleep return time out is set to only 2 minutes, so 2 min after unattended wake if there is nothing keeping it awake it will automatically go back to sleep and Sage will never wake again since it did not set timers. I set the timeout to 10 minutes and now there is plenty of time for the service to recover. You can check the sage logs and windows logs under system to confirm if that is indeed your problem.

How to change the timeout:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/17...d-wake-up.html

[eli2k]

Thanks for the help. I guess I should have mentioned I was using XP. The registry keys were not present in XP.