Remotely control TV-Service (1 Viewer)

[DiePlage]

Hello Folks,

I just switched to multiseat and it works quite well.

Is there some tool allowing me to remotely control (start / stop) the tv-server service on my remote tv-server machine?

Background: Unfortunately, from time to time my tv-server crashes. There seems to be an issue in dvbs epg-grabbing.
On my singleseat installation I used to have a desktop-icon linked to a simple script restarting the service. That was quite easy and could be done with a remote control. Now I have to grab a keyboard, remote into my tv-server and restart the service there.

I remember some tiny tool that existed in the system tray and gave some status information about the tv-server. However, I don't know if it's maintained anymore nor if it worls in multiseat environments...

Any hint would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

DiePlage


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[tompa]

Why not try Teamviewer?

/tompa

 

[JiRo]

Is there some tool allowing me to remotely control (start / stop) the tv-server service on my remote tv-server machine?

Hi DiePlage,

since ago I have used TVService Recovery setting and since the time I don't need restart service:

If You nevertheless need remotely start/stop service try to use command sc.

sc <servername> stop <servicename>
sc <servername> start <servicename>

JiRo.