Daily scheduled restart function direct in Volumio

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

Hi guys, I am unsing Volumio on a Raspi 4 with server plugin since some years.
By the way it is my player in the living room and my clock and feeds all my streamers
Over the time, volumio gets slow or some times do not work after some days.
Therefore over the last years I have used every night at 4:00am with great sucess the
systemd-reboot.timer
You receive a fresh restarted Volumio system on your Raspi every morning.
Now I am wondering why this scheduled restart function could not directly be implemented into Volumio. I do not know if
vrestart
would be also OK.
I think many users let the system running 24/7, maybe it is worth to avoid customizing and directy implement this into Volumio 3? This restart function could look a bit like the “sleep” function but integrated into the shutdown section.
What do you think?
Cheers
Korniman

[G-rig]

Yeah not a bad idea, I leave mine on 24/7 and I expect the power consumption should be fairly low when it’s on idle (?), Just have a 2.5" SSD plugged in. It’s not often I need to reboot, just sometimes if it stops working.

Seems like the Tidal app doesn’t work more regularly these days and needs a clear storage/cache pretty often to work.

Maybe a daily and weekly option.

[ebretteville]

+1 for me.

[Josh2000]

+1.

[advr61]

+1.

[volumio]

Good idea, this is now on our TODO list

If we can make it quick it will be released in the next version, due in 2 weeks

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

Boom, I am surprised how easy this runs here trough the board. Cool.
Please consider if restart the hardware or restart Volumio is the best approach? I mean target should be to have a clean fresh System, afterwards. Hardware restart is definite solution but maybe this goes over the time on the components live time (365 times restarts per year when I drive it on the edge). Software reset is more soft, but I do not know if all RAM, cache
etc is cleaned and system is set like with power on. Maybe you could implement a drop down of both options. Thanks and have a nice evening.
Cheers
Korniman

[Jeremy_Blumenfeld]

Was this implemented?

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

Hi Jeremy I am also waiting for the implementation. Seems so it was not easy as expected. Kind regards
Benjamin

[MichaelE]

Hi there!
Any news on this topic?
I am facing the problem, that Volumio Premium gets unresponsive on my Pi4 when beeing idle for 1-2 days…

Thanks a lot!
Michael

[volumio]

Hi Michael,
that’s not normal. Let’s try to figure out the reason.

Which plugins do you have installed?

[MichaelE]

Hi!
These are my plugins:

• FusionDSP (deactivated)
• PeppyMeter (deactivated)
• Spotify (active)
• SoundCloud (active)
• Backup & Restore Data (active)
• GPIO Buttons (active)
• Rotary Encoder II (active)
• Touch Display (active)

Volumio Version is 3.512

Thanks a lot!

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

Dear MichaelE, I can understand you well and I face the same issues with 3 different Volumio devices. Some are working better as others but for all of them is a nightly reboot like a good fresh awakening. How ever, this feature was never implemented from Volumio but it was/is on there bucket list.
To solve this issue quickly you can setup a automatically reboot which will be stay in the system even when Volumio gets updated…

For sure it would be better to have this directly into the build

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

For your reference:

[GUIDE] How to set up Volumio to reboot nightly

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/systemd-reboot.timer

Paste all within the lines into the file:

---

[Unit]
Description=Reboot daily at 4:00

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-* 4:00:00

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

---

STRG+O = Create file
STRG+X = return
cat /etc/systemd/system/systemd-reboot.timer // Check
sudo systemctl enable systemd-reboot.timer // start timer automatically after a reboot.
sudo systemctl start systemd-reboot.timer // start timer immediately

Info:
sudo systemctl stop systemd-reboot.timer // stop timer immediately
sudo systemctl restart systemd-reboot.timer // restart timer if it is already running
sudo systemctl status systemd-reboot.timer // shows status of the timer

[MichaelE]

Thanks a lot!
I was hoping for an “official” solution as these system-changes will be wiped with every update, right?

[Wheaten]

No this one is installed as a service, these will normally not be touched by a sub version update.

[ryanwalexander]

I just looked for this feature. Was it abandoned?

[Korniman-the-Rooky]

No, but maybe they forgot to implement this requested feature over the years into the GUI. I have learned to live with the tweaky solution mentioned above. Cheers

[Simania]

Okey this was a long time request for myself, but since it was not made by somebody else, I took the callenge up by myself, with the help of some AI…
The plugin is called ‘ScheduledRestart’ and is awaiting approval from Volumio.
This is a screenshot:

You can select the time and day(s) for the scheduled restart.
In technical term, the schedule fires a cron job.
I tried my best to put in as many translations as possible.

[Mod=Wheaten]
moved to: [Plugin] ScheduledRestart