Pause and restart a service

[mkozma]

Add an ability to pause and restart a service, and store the services in a MeOS competition save (& a backup?). Less to setup on the day of competition. All services paused on MeOS startup by default.

[erikmelin]

@mkozma Can you elaborate on what you request. Many services have the option "Save settings" which does what you request, I think.

But starting them by default is not good. Say that you save the service to export results. Should this then start on every computer opening the competition?

[bruceperson]

Our current setup has multiple smaller TV displays for results, rather then big ones with multiple columns. This is easier to transport. In MeOS we setup a service for each TV, currently numbering 6 (can be more), to update the HTML file for that display.
If we ever need to restart MeOS for any reason, or just setting up at the start of the event, all those services have to be setup correctly every time. This might even happen with only an inexperienced operator present!

It would be good if:
1/ each service can be effectively paused rather than stopped. This then keeps all the required info, repetition rate, task to run after each update etc is saved, rather than that info all having to be manually re-entered to start the service again. To get rid of a service altogether, operator should specifically select delete service. Otherwise it remains, but paused (inactive).
2/ services are saved in the event somehow, so when MeOS is restarted, all the services are there, ready to go. These can then all be setup and named appropriately before event day.
3/ I agree starting all services by default on MeOS start is not good. Perhaps a tick box option (default unticked), to start the service on MeOS start? This tickbox status could be stored only locally on a particular PC, so when the event is loaded onto another computer, the tickbox is unticked by default, and all services are not started (but still listed as part of the event).

[bruceperson]

PS: I could not find your option to save settings for a service

[mkozma]

Today, we ran the Victorian Middle Championships (Australia) with 6 services exporting the results to a web document every 7 seconds to 6 monitors.
For some reason, the Prize Ceremony List caused the application to hang with a 'Not Responding' message. Ultimately, I had to force quit the application and recreate all 6 services (twice).
Even If I had the ability to Load the previous services from a file that had previously been saved, it would have saved me a lot of time.