2010-08-01, 12:16
Hello all,
I run my Mac mini through an Onkyo amp for video and audio then into a standard LCD TV.
I initially had the mac running xbmc 24/7 while I used a Harmony remote to sleep or wake the mac when I needed to use it. It worked ok, but I would often find issues with the display (it would not display anything when it woke up) which I put down either the Mac or Onkyo app having a hard time with XBMC rich interface directly from being woken up.
To prove a point I started shutting down the running xbmc before putting the mac to sleep then have an extra step where the mac would wake and load XBMC from fresh on start up. This has worked like a dream, and I never have any problems loading the graphics.
The problem I have hit is that XBMC does not 'see' the network share I have to host my media when it opens. Nothing is available to the library and any content updates fail. I then have to restart xbmc after which the network functions work without an issue.
I'm wondering if this is down to the Mac not bringing the network connection up quick enough from it's sleep state before XBMC actually loads?
Could this by the case? If XBMC does not have a network connection at the very start of it's load does it not 'see' the network when it does come online?
I think the easiest fix might be to somehow delay the load of XBMC when it wakes up. Can someone suggest how this could be done?
Cheers!
I run my Mac mini through an Onkyo amp for video and audio then into a standard LCD TV.
I initially had the mac running xbmc 24/7 while I used a Harmony remote to sleep or wake the mac when I needed to use it. It worked ok, but I would often find issues with the display (it would not display anything when it woke up) which I put down either the Mac or Onkyo app having a hard time with XBMC rich interface directly from being woken up.
To prove a point I started shutting down the running xbmc before putting the mac to sleep then have an extra step where the mac would wake and load XBMC from fresh on start up. This has worked like a dream, and I never have any problems loading the graphics.
The problem I have hit is that XBMC does not 'see' the network share I have to host my media when it opens. Nothing is available to the library and any content updates fail. I then have to restart xbmc after which the network functions work without an issue.
I'm wondering if this is down to the Mac not bringing the network connection up quick enough from it's sleep state before XBMC actually loads?
Could this by the case? If XBMC does not have a network connection at the very start of it's load does it not 'see' the network when it does come online?
I think the easiest fix might be to somehow delay the load of XBMC when it wakes up. Can someone suggest how this could be done?
Cheers!
