Running as a service

[IanIreland]

Should the Sage WebcamXP Interface work when Webcam is running as a service?

[tpchristian]

Honestly, I didn't realize it could be run as a service. However, I believe that the answer is no because the old communication interface that they use relies on having an webcamxp window to initiate communication.

[IanIreland]

Thanks for getting back to me.
It runs very well as a service and (of course) obviates the need to fire up the program on reboot.
I'm experimenting with the plugin - but already I have had to restart the program for no clear reason. I have previously left it running as a service for weeks with no issues.

[tpchristian]

I have mine in the startup group which will start automatically. However, I agree, I generally like to run this kind of thing as a service, but not much I can do about that part. Which part did you have to restart; webcamxp, the sagewebcamxp agent, or the homeseer (running the plugin)?

[IanIreland]

The webcam program itself. It has now been running for 24 hours so maybe the earlier crash was just a glitch. I'm running it on Server 2012E.
I don't generally logon to the server unless I need to - so running as a service suits me better.
I will experiment using task scheduler to start both the program and the interface whether the user is logged on or not - when I can find time.

[IanIreland]

Hmmm. Webcam closed again by itself. It doesn't seem as stable as when running as a service. Time to look at Windows logs.