Recent Update?

[TexARC]

Personally, I'm not happy to let Windows reboot when it wants. My Windows Update Monitor provides a virtual device to indicate if a reboot is required. It also has a control to reboot the (remote or local) computer. Therefore using a standard Homeseer event, you can trigger on this reboot flag and restart the PC. Before rebooting, it shuts down Homeseer gracefully (if running on that PC); rather than the forced close of all applications running with a WU restart. No Homeseer databases corrupted!

My problem is that (I have not counted the number of times precisely) My Homeseer has stopped working. The connection to the Z-wave has died and the light is red. Or, the light is green but just cannot be found by "find.homeseer.com".... Often I discover this while at my 11 hour shift at the pharmacy, 30+ miles away and I need to change a setting. Turn something on/off. I see via NEST a reason to act and use HS, for example my 88 y.o. dad falls in front of a locked , smashed his head on the concrete and is bleeding and I cannot UNLOCK it for him because I cannot get HS to respond (actual event). And I cannot because HS simply has gone off into LaLa Land. Rebooting the platform when I get home FIXES/FIXED the problem because yes, this is running on the pathetic windoze platform instead of unix or OS/2.... Granted it will not always fix the problems, witness my entire setup configuration getting excrunged for unknown reasons a week or so ago. I still have no evidence as to why this happened. Apparently no one else has experienced such a re-write of their configuration file.
I started building PCs in 1980-1981 from pallets of components for hospitals throughout the USA and I did so for decades. Novell Certified Engineer. 4th generation relational database WIZARD. Website designer and developer, before that , bulletin board designer before that and Sysop for CompuServe, "you kids got it great, I remember plugging in 8-prong, 16k memory chips onto a daughter board, all 32 of them, in order to get from 512K of ram up to 1024k of RAM in order to have some extended memory to build a stack of coolness. yadda yadda.
Rebooting it each night in a "friendly shutdown way" would promote stability and accessibility on a daily basis, IMHO from what I know about Windows (YES, I truly miss OS2 Warp, I was a beta for some time with them) and my couple of years' experience with HomeSeer. ?? I will brag also that I was a beta for US Robotics, for you Asimov dweebs....
I would really appreciate anyone that has already chosen this path, and willing to share their methodology? (This is totally independent of Windoze update reboots, of course.

[jon00]

Rebooting it each night in a "friendly shutdown way" would promote stability and accessibility on a daily basis, IMHO from what I know about Windows (YES, I truly miss OS2 Warp, I was a beta for some time with them) and my couple of years' experience with HomeSeer. ?? I will brag also that I was a beta for US Robotics, for you Asimov dweebs....
I would really appreciate anyone that has already chosen this path, and willing to share their methodology? (This is totally independent of Windoze update reboots, of course.

Maybe you have not 2 and 2 together here but I already provided you with one option as this is built-in to my update monitor. Anyway I'm going to bow out of this thread.