Just wanted to add something that I noticed lately.
When you stop the Xibo application and then right click watchdog from the side menu and click close, part of the application is still running under task manager. This causes issues next time you start the application because watchdog sees two copies of the app running, and keeps killing one of them. The simple workaround is to close the application, exit watchdog, and then kill the running app from task manager. After following these steps I am no longer seeing watchdog kill my app multiple times.
I do not see this issue in 1.7.9 clients, so I feel it is something new in 1.8.0 and higher.
Let me know if I should be stopping the application a different way to prevent this.
I don’t think that should happen and certainly does not seem to be the case on my PC, although some more testing on different machines could be good.
How is the process called and what Windows version are you using?
In Windows 10 it should show two processes under ‘Apps’ one for client and one for watchdog.
If you close the player and exit watchdog, there might be Xibo app running for a few seconds under ‘Background Processes’ - that process should end automatically after few seconds, but it would seem that for some reason it doesn’t do that for you.
It could be confusing for watchdog if you start a player when the background process is still running perhaps?
Is your player returning any logs back to the CMS?
Correct, it is staying running under the background process section. Windows 10 Home 32-bit for all of my players running 1.8.0 and 1.8.1. Also, have seen this on Win 10 Pro 64-bit. I just uninstalled 1.8.0 from Win 10 Pro 64-bit. The application had not been running for over a day, and when I went to uninstall it told me it needed to stop the application. I found it running under background processes which is what reminded me to open this ticket.
I have logging turned off for the players to say on data, but I can run logging on my PC with the client if you would like me to test something.