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<blockquote data-quote="mp.user" data-source="post: 995555" data-attributes="member: 115064">Started on: 2013-05-21last update: 2013-05-21Summary:Allow client/server (multiseat) configuration with TV server turned offArea:TV client plugin Description:It's currently not possible to use clients in a multiseat environment when the server is turned off. With the TV plugin in memory, a client tries to communicate with the TV server on startup and on certain actions (e.g. 'stop'). Without a running TV server, the client behaves unresponsive and produces error messages. See <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/118998/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/118998/</a> and <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/42217/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/42217/</a> for details.&nbsp;An option to disable this communication would be a nice feature because MP has a lot of functions that can be used without the TV server (listen to music, watch photos, play games, ...). When the TV server is run on a dedicated machine, there'd be no need to run this machine all the time, saving a lot of power.&nbsp;There's a configuration entry named wait for tv server in MediaPortal.xml which seems to address this feature; unfortunately it doesn't work. It is disabled in the configuration section, and even with the value no, the tv client plugin tries to open the server database.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mp.user, post: 995555, member: 115064"] [B]Started on:[/B] 2013-05-21 [B]last update:[/B] 2013-05-21 [B]Summary:[/B] Allow client/server (multiseat) configuration with TV server turned off [B]Area:[/B] TV client plugin [B] Description:[/B] It's currently not possible to use clients in a multiseat environment when the server is turned off. With the TV plugin in memory, a client tries to communicate with the TV server on startup and on certain actions (e.g. 'stop'). Without a running TV server, the client behaves unresponsive and produces error messages. See [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/118998/[/url] and [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/42217/[/url] for details. An option to disable this communication would be a nice feature because MP has a lot of functions that can be used without the TV server (listen to music, watch photos, play games, ...). When the TV server is run on a dedicated machine, there'd be no need to run this machine all the time, saving a lot of power. There's a configuration entry named [FONT=courier new]wait for tv server[/FONT] in [FONT=courier new]MediaPortal.xml[/FONT] which seems to address this feature; unfortunately it doesn't work. It is disabled in the configuration section, and even with the value [FONT=courier new]no[/FONT], the tv client plugin tries to open the server database. [/QUOTE]

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