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BigBox Daily Reboot 1.02

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Plugin that adds automated daily reboot support to BigBox (to prevent any slowdowns or errors when running for days). Daily reboot setup is done directly from LaunchBox. Once enabled, your PC will reboot every day at the chosen time if BigBox is running. The plugin is also smart enough to skip the reboot if you are playing a game at the chosen reboot time.

Tutorial and Demo:

 

Installation:

  1. Copy BigBoxDailyReboot.dll to your LaunchBox/Plugins folder.
  2. Open LaunchBox and choose Tools->BigBox Daily Reboot Settings
  3. Set daily reboots to Enabled and choose a reboot time.
  4. If your PC is not already booting directly into BigBox, create a shortcut to LaunchBox/BigBox.exe and place the shortcut into your Windows startup folder (to get to the startup folder choose Run from the Windows Start menu, type shell:startup in the command box, and hit OK).

 

Release History:
1.00:
- Initial release.

1.01:
- Improved detection of games being open at reboot  time (Steam games were sometimes not being correctly reported as closed).
- Added optional debug log file.

1.02:
- Added version info to the settings screen.
 

 

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What's New in Version 1.02   See changelog

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- Added version info to the settings screen.

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superrob3000
30 minutes ago, mcfilmmakers said:

Awesome! I'm curious, what is the marquee screen, speakers and screen between the speakers that your used?

@mcfilmmakers thanks! The marquee screen is a Vitrolight. Under that is a kit I put together with a HUB75 RGB panel and WS2812 RGB rings. They run off an ESP-32 controller and I wrote the software for it (displays game and platform info from BigBox as well as high score scrolling and new high score notifications)

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erax0r

Do you know, is there a bug filed for whatever is causing the issues behind the need for this? Also does your plugin gracefully close everything down?

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superrob3000
24 minutes ago, erax0r said:

Do you know, is there a bug filed for whatever is causing the issues behind the need for this? Also does your plugin gracefully close everything down?

There have been a few posts about crashes or running out of memory when running for a long time, but not everyone has those issues and I guess it's a hard thing to recreate and track down. In any case, after setting up this plugin on my own arcade I've been able to run it 24/7 for the last year without any issues. Prior to that I could only go a couple of days at most.

 

The plugin closes BigBox and tells Windows to do the reboot. Windows handles gracefully shutting down any other open applications.

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