Serviio

Serviio does not disconnect when network or WIFI is disconnected. But it does disconnect when the router is restarted.

The power goes down a couple times a day which caused this issue for me.

The only way to get it to work again is to stop and start the server again from the console.

Is there a way to solve this?

I'm guessing its the ARP cache clearing when the router restarts. Try setting a IP reservation for your Serviio on the router.

Carlos likely has hit on your issue. With a server process like Serviio (or any other server based application), it's best to have a static IP address for the computer running the process. That way it never has to search for it at a different address. If your router offers an IP reservation process (most but not all do), that is the easiest way to handle it. Then the computer will always have the same IP address on your network.

I don't think that is the issue.

I have reserved the IP addresses for all my devices because I need that to control which devices can access Serviio. Not all the devices on the network are mine so I need some of them to be blocked.

As you may already know. Serviio has the option to allow access for just the selected devices.

However, I have the Router IP blocked from accessing Serviio. I will unblock it and test it.

I did some tests and made sure to stop and start the server for each test, but resulted in fails.

I tried to unblock the Router IP and to make the same reserved address on the device as static just in case.

Do you have other suggestions?

Afraid I have no other ideas. My router never goes down, as I have a UPS powering it so even a short power failure keeps it running. I've been using Serviio for about 10 years now, and never encountered a disconnect issue. My Windows PC has all power savings disabled, so it never sleeps or loses network connection.

Latest update!

I turned Serviio on the other PC to check something. I noticed that I did not disconnect when the power went out but it did on main PC.

The difference between the two is that.

The main system is running on Windows 8.1 connected to 5Ghz WIFI connection. Has Audio and Video media.

The backup system is running on Windows 10 2.4 GHz. Only has one online source running that is from localhost. (That was done when I created a Serviio WIKI solution for casting media on any system).

I will test later to see if the same configuration will get it to work.

The router is dual band and I do have UPS but it is hooked up to the family TV system but might hook it up to the WIFI in the future.

All tests also failed.

Update on the original post.

The issue occurs any time the WIFI is disconnected for a couple of minutes or more.

Since there is no known solution for it.

I solved it by configuring the Task scheduler to trigger an event that will restart the Serviio service each time the WIFI is connected to the network and it is working well.

Sometimes a simple workaround is better than beating your head against the wall trying to resolve something Glad you found something that works for you.