My book live never sleeps

[WDTony]

With the new version 2.0 software, we do re-transcode your photos. You may see not go to sleep for up to a couple days if you have a large collection of photos. Also, if you have a web browser open to the dashboard of the My Book Live, that may keep it from going to sleep as the web code periodically polls the drive for status.

[TonyPh12345]

Don't use the LAN LEDs as an indication of anything specific.

Even broadcasts on your network that aren't directly related to the MBL will cause the LED to flicker...

[Mihaylov]

Hi WDTony! If photos's transcodings is reason that why this trahscoding stops when remote access is off because turning off remote access allow MBL to go to sleep?

[WDTony]

Are you asking a question.. or is that a statement.. I am confused.

If you turn off Remote Access, we turn off the transcoder process.

[Mihaylov]

Why???

[toolio]

My 3tb My Book Live will no longer sleep after the last two 2.x firmware updates. Nothing else has changed on my system and I have not made any major changes to the drive content. The green light will stop flickering when nothing is happening, but it will no longer spin down and go the the blue light.

I have no photos except for some album art associated with music files. I have remote access turned off. I have ensured that all devices that might be using the drive or contacting it are turned off. I am not running through a switch, just directly to the router.

This is definitely a problem created by the new firmware. My drive slept just fine until I installed 2.x firmware. It cannot be the problem with processing photos because I do not have any, to speak of. It cannot be the remote access problem because it is not turned on. And yes, I do have it set to sleep after 10 minutes in settings, which I turned off and back on again to see if it would make a difference--did not.

I think there are enough people reporting sleep problems with 2.x that had no problem with 1.x firmware  to assume that it is, indeed, a problem with 2.x.

Thanks.

[adachim]

4th day after installing 2.01 firmware and green light is still brinking.  I SSHed in to the unit t and issued " top "command to see what was causing the activities, and I can see  "mediacralwer" process is running strong.  Is this the transcoding process you are talking about?

more curiously,  I can swear that I saw 'miocrawler' also running the first day or two after the firmware upgrade.  I thought you ditched mionet and if so, why was the process running?  just curious.

[WDTony]

We extensively tested Sleep for this release as much of the internals have changed. I am not sure that you can assume there is any problem yet.. if there is, we will address it. You might do as adachim has done and run a top on the device to see what is going on. As you can see it is still transcoding photos. As I have said many times before here, this process can take days (It probably took a week to transcode my 25K+ photos).

With regards to Miocrawler, yet that is the process that transcodes photos. Since this is an internal process, I wouldn't be so worried about the name and association with the previous remote access solution.

[anpfeiffer]

It is the mediacrawler. If you kill the task, the blue light comes back again. I have only 122 photos and this firmeware is running 5 days.

[WDTony]

Ok that is interesting. So that is all you have in the Public/Share Pictures directory?

Have you rebooted or turned on/off remote access?