2013-07-02, 10:36
Hi,
I just want to share another little tool of me I used to automate my XBMC startup. I use XBMC on a media PC with a NAS which I wake up by Wake on LAN. The Problem on that is the boot time of my QNAP NAS. I want to delay the start of XBMC until the NAS is available in the network to avoid XBMC Database missing error and the usage of the startup index refresh.
For this purpose I created a small batch file which I put into Autostart of my XBMC PC. First it send a Wake on Lan signal to my NAS than it waits until the NAS is available and start XBMC.exe
To wait for a ping isn`t as easy in windows as I thought in the beginning. The Windwos ping tool is insufficient because unreliable for this job, so I create a small tool which does exactly this.
WaitPing.exe --ip 192.168.1.1
Waiting for 192.168.1.1: .........
Found! Continue...
Only thing I need to do is to put it in the batch before the XBMC call.
Feel free to use it if you need it.
You can download it on my blog.
(The Article is in German but it pretty much explains the same as I wrote here)
http://solariz.de/7842/pingwait-kleines-...r-ping.htm
I just want to share another little tool of me I used to automate my XBMC startup. I use XBMC on a media PC with a NAS which I wake up by Wake on LAN. The Problem on that is the boot time of my QNAP NAS. I want to delay the start of XBMC until the NAS is available in the network to avoid XBMC Database missing error and the usage of the startup index refresh.
For this purpose I created a small batch file which I put into Autostart of my XBMC PC. First it send a Wake on Lan signal to my NAS than it waits until the NAS is available and start XBMC.exe
To wait for a ping isn`t as easy in windows as I thought in the beginning. The Windwos ping tool is insufficient because unreliable for this job, so I create a small tool which does exactly this.
WaitPing.exe --ip 192.168.1.1
Waiting for 192.168.1.1: .........
Found! Continue...
Only thing I need to do is to put it in the batch before the XBMC call.
Feel free to use it if you need it.
You can download it on my blog.
(The Article is in German but it pretty much explains the same as I wrote here)
http://solariz.de/7842/pingwait-kleines-...r-ping.htm
