[zag]

For anyone who keeps their HTPC up 24/7 what's your maximum uptime for running XBMC with no problems?

I've only managed about 3 days and was wondering what others have experienced?

[ertman]

Do you mean uptime as in on 24/7 or is sleep included?

[zag]

Sleep can be included as its the total uptime.

You can check it by clicking on system info.

[Piers]

Windows 8 + AMD 12.10 drivers = left on 24/7 with perfection.
Windows 8.1 + AMD 13.x drivers (12.10 no longer works) = random crashes, multiple display and stability issues with XBMC. Managed to leave it on for 2 days without the app crashing so far.

[ixnu]

Crossed fingers, but OpenElec 3.2.3 x64 (12.2 + backports) on Intel 1156 with an nGT430 has never once hung or needed a reboot.

On some previous OE configs, XBMC would hang about once a month based on daily use but the OE O/S has never crashed. I have a button mapped to hup XBMC if this ever happens.

[ppic]

depends on who is waking it up from sleep, with me no problem, with my wife, it crashes...

[prae5]

About 3ish months for a Openelec based virtual machine thats used for library updates.

[Ned Scott]

I have 2 ATV1s running Crystalbuntu that will say up for months at a time. There are a few known issues that will crash them, like certain AirPlay streams, but general use (library, playback, add-ons, etc) don't normally cause an issue.

Pivos XIOS with Linux seems to stay up for months at a time as well, but doesn't get much use. There are some odd bugs that require a reboot to correct, but it is rare to crash (at least with my family's light use).

I keep XBMC open and minimized on OSX to serve a UPnP library and files, and it will stay running for weeks at a time. It only goes down when the computer itself needs to be rebooted, or my damn NTFS drivers start acting up. However, I don't do much on this install other than testing, screen shots, and UPnP.

My other XBMC devices don't normally stay on for log periods of time, like iOS.

[zag]

Its great to hear people have long uptimes.

I'm a big user of XBMC, 3 or 4hrs each night, and I always get GUI crashes (slow response, hang on a screen, videos not starting) after about 3 days. I was wondering if it was a memory leak or something but sounds like others are having more success than me. I'm on OpenELEC by the way.

[Nu7s]

My Raspberry Pi has been up and running for about 4 months, without one restart.

[whitebelly]

Well, I lied in the poll, but not on purpose. I forgot that I use Hibernate Trigger to exit XBMC before each sleep and restart after on my Win 7 HTPC. That would knock me back to "1 Day". Sorry.

[ertman]

I have had 3 days, in and out of sleep. After that I usually need to restart as some functions such as airplay tend to stop working.

[black_eagle]

2 Months 11 days on the FIC Spectra in the bedroom, 13 days 2hrs on the living room PC, but that was because of an error in Aeon MQ5 going to a black screen on submenu selection (MQ has just fixed it yay !!) and I had to kill it and restart to get my GUI back.

[pkscout]

One day, but that's on purpose. I'm running on Windows 7 32 bit, and it seems like after some random period of time strange things start happening (mostly images stop displaying). So I just have XBMC quit and restart every day at 5am so I don't have to hassle with it. The Windows machine itself runs fine, rebooting only when updates require it.

[saitoh183]

My 2 htpc have a windows task to reboot xbmc every day at 2am for and 8am for the other. This way i avoid any slowdowns or script problems from being on for long periods. I used to have them just on 24/7 (no sleep) and i always eventually had some random problem due to no restart of xbmc.