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restart software - jasemilly - 2014-07-15
Hi everyone
I am running Frodo on a win7 for a friend, who lives miles away and has no technical ability. I have set xbmc up for them and it's working great. It's left on all the time and it sometimes crashes when it hasn't been rebooted for sometime.
I know I can schedule a reboot of the machine but I would prefer not to do this as it does other jobs. But if XBMC itself could reboot at 2am everyday that would clear a little issue for me.
thanks
Jasemilly
RE: restart software - baijuxavior - 2014-07-15
It is possible to restart xbmc easily using the autohotkey script:
Code:
Process, Exist, xbmc.exe ; check to see if xbmc.exe is running
If (ErrorLevel > 0) ; If it is running
WinClose, ahk_class XBMC ; close xbmc
Sleep, 10000 ; sleep 10 seconds
Run, C:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe ; start xbmcCompile this script to create exe file and schedule it to run at the specified time in task scheduler.
A more fool proof method is
Code:
Process, Exist, xbmc.exe ; check if xbmc.exe is running
If (ErrorLevel > 0) ; If it is running
WinClose, ahk_class XBMC ; close xbmc
Loop
{
sleep, 1000 ; wait one second
Process, Exist, xbmc.exe ; check if xbmc.exe is running
If (ErrorLevel = 0) ; not running
{
Run, C:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe ; start xbmc
Sleep, 2000
WinActivate, ahk_class XBMC ; bring xbmc to the front.
}
}