Restart emby server via browser

[Pockenfresse 3]

Hello all,
I am using the portable version for Windows x64 in the current stable version 4.7.8.0. I run the emby server as a Windows service, as it is described here .
This works very well. What I am missing is the possibility to restart the server via web interface.

There is only the entry for shutting down the server.

I already tried to install the service without NSSM (Powershell New-Service, cmd sc.exe create) but unfortunately these services did not start at all.

Does anyone have an idea about this problem?

Olf

embyserver.txt hardware_detection-63801269408.txt

[Luke 40086]

Hi, that's correct. The built in restart is not supported right now when running as a windows service.

[Pockenfresse 3]

Hi, thank you, is this planned for the future?

[Luke 40086]

Its one of those things that would be nice although I can't say when it will make it to the top of the priority list.

[Pockenfresse 3]

OK, thanks.

[rbjtech 4997]

Just set the service to restart on shutdown (in the service/nssm config)

Then when you shutdown via the web app - it actually just restarts it.

To shut it down properly - you need to actually stop the service via services.msc 

 

[Happy2Play 9444]

Or create a bat file to restart Emby with the API call

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/System/Restart?api_key={YOURAPIKEY}" -d ""

 

[Pockenfresse 3]

Thank you for your solutions. For me the best solution at the moment is to set the service to restart.

[Pockenfresse 3]

On 10/14/2022 at 11:42 PM, Happy2Play said:

Or create a bat file to restart Emby with the API call

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/System/Restart?api_key={YOURAPIKEY}" -d ""

 

Unfortunately, this does not work for me. I get the message:

The server is unable to self-restart. Please restart manually.

 

[rbjtech 4997]

13 minutes ago, Pockenfresse said:

Unfortunately, this does not work for me. I get the message:

The server is unable to self-restart. Please restart manually.

 

If you are running as a service - then yes, you cannot restart via the API, maybe try shutdown instead - and if your service is configured to restart, then it will do so - the same as if you shutdown the service in a browser (it will restart).

ie

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8096/emby/System/Shutdown?api_key={YOURAPIKEY}" -d ""

[jpaddle 1]

Just landed here looking for a solution to this b/c there was an update and I needed to do the same thing.

Went back to my server admin, did a shutdown & restarted the system thinking it wasn't going to be an option and BOOM, after it fired back up, the restart button appeared in the admin.

Just wanted to say thanks to the devs for all you do!