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[jefftv]

Bear with me I'm a JRiver newbie.  I've bounced around between a few different media centers over the past few years, originally WMC, then MediaPortal, most recently Kodi and just installed JRiver yesterday due to Kodi not handling commercial skipping well.

I was a bit surprised that JRiver didn't install as a service and as someone who often won't check my recorded TV or Media Server for days I would have been a bit disillusioned to find that my pc had rebooted, JRiver didn't start and nothing was recorded (maybe it still would have recorded?).

Anywho I just installed JRiver as a service using https://nssm.cc/, I had to set the service to log in as me otherwise my JRiver remote client wasn't able to connect to it but once I did that I was able to connect to the server after a pc reboot so that's looking good.

Has anyone tried this before?  Any issues I should be aware of?

[mojave]

Go to Tools > Options > Startup > Windows Startup and select "Run on Windows startup: Media Server" or ". . .Media Center and Media Server" and you will never have to worry about it.

Tip:  In Options there is search bar at the bottom. If you type "startup" in it you will get all setup options regarding startup. The search bar is very helpful if you don't know where the options are located.

[jefftv]

Ahh... cool, I hadn't noticed that in options.  However it doesn't appear that would work for me personally as "startup" is really "logon" and I don't want to configure any sort of auto login to that computer.  Appreciate the tip and feedback though, thanks!

[MikeO]

Hi

If I get you right , you want always to logon to your PC for security reasons that's fine.

MC will start as part of the whole logon process if you set it in tools > options as suggested above. If windows its placed in Windows startup group (see Task Manager)

It won't start before you log in.

If you are in Windows you see a small MC logo next to your network icons in the application tray

Mike

[AndrewFG]

MC is a Windows Application and not a Windows Service. So it will only run if there is a user logged in.

You can set it to start automatically on "start up" which really actually means automatically on "log in".

If you want it to really start on "start up" you need to set the PC to log in automatically. To set up automatic log in you need to run the Windows command "netplwiz"..

[thecrow]

@jefftv,
I do something similar with the free version of http://www.firedaemon.com/product/firedaemon-pro.
I have a headless Windows Server with all my files on that I access from various devices through out our home.
Obviously I do not want this system to have auto-login on startup or leave a user logged-in all the time.
It actually works really well and rather than leave this system on 24-7 I use another program https://www.green-it-software.com/ to control sleeping and waking the server when I need it.

The main downside I have come across is the fact it is regarded as an unsupported way of running MC.
Additionally program upgrades have to be run as an application rather than a service, as does any program housekeeping too.
So in these situations I have to login to the server, kill the service, run the application to do what I need then restart the service and logout again.

It would be fantastic if MC could be split into two, a server that runs as a service and a client that runs as an app.

[jefftv]

thanks for the reply @thecrow.  Sounds like we have somewhat similar setups/usage so I'm glad to hear it's been working well for you.  I'll have to check out firedaemon-pro if I have any problems with nssm.cc.