For anyone who shares their computer and had multiple logins, running as a proper service is a must or it leads to silly workarounds.
I have told other friends how great Plex is (I run it under linux) however several tech savvy friends who run all windows systems a home didn’t take a second look once they found out it didn’t run as a service. They are aware of the workarounds however find it a pain to setup so they use other solutions that do run as a service.
For anyone who shares their computer and had multiple logins, running as a proper service is a must or it leads to silly workarounds. I have told other friends how great Plex is (I run it under linux) however several tech savvy friends who run all windows systems a home didn't take a second look once they found out it didn't run as a service. They are aware of the workarounds however find it a pain to setup so they use other solutions that do run as a service.
Allthough I agree that this should be part of the install, this might be handy
That would be the “work around” I was referring to.
If you are going to offer an always on server program it should run as a service.
Common competing transcoding servers such as Serviio and tversity run as services on install.
That would be the "work around" I was referring to. If you are going to offer an always on server program it should run as a service.
assuming it can.
There is already a *massive* debate on this, lets leave this thread for the voting. :)
Add one more vote for Plex Media Server as a windows service.
Plex is how my family accesses 80% of the content we consume, and this is my only real complaint!
I don't seem why this is such an issue (to get it running as a service), I've written plenty of programs and set them to install as services - it's about 5 lines of code.
I don't see why we should have to be auto logging on machines, running scheduled tasks etc.
Unless there's a fundamental dependancy on something in the ui, I can't see why this can't be done.
it would be neat if it would support this as an option during install or by default frankly, i added it myself via sc since i run it on a 2008 R2 host but i guess it would be a tad nicer to have the application work as a service on its own.
Yeah a native service option would be useful instead of using third party software like AlwaysUp
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Adding my vote to this.
There is a simple application available already in this thread: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/23711-running-pms-as-a-service-in-whs/?p=351373 which is what I am using in the mean time. The down side is that to get updates, you have to stop the service, and launch the plex server application on its own.
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Whilst I think that Plex should have the option to run as a service, for many (including me) it probably won't make a difference. As my PMS also runs sickbeard, couchpotato & Usenet downloads, it needs to be running in a user context anyway so I'm happy with auto login after restart.
However, I can see that for those just running PMS on it's own, having the option would be very useful
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+1 native Windows Service plz!
We've been around the block with this one for some time now - using a workaround from this thread http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/23711-running-pms-as-a-service-in-whs/)
Still waiting for native support...
We've been around the block with this one for some time now - using a workaround from this thread http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/23711-running-pms-as-a-service-in-whs/)
Still waiting for native support...
I suggest you actually vote for it then, given it is currently no where near the top of user requested features in this forum.
I suggest you actually vote for it then, given it is currently no where near the top of user requested features in this forum.
+1, sorry i thought me moaning counted as a vote
