Windows Home Server and Windows Media Center continue to grow friendlier by the day thanks to Ian Dixon’s new add-in, Media Center Health Monitor.
The add-in monitors the health of all of your Media Center systems in the home – even if they are not connected to the home server as clients.
Should there be any issues with a Media Center machine, it will be reported in Windows Home Server’s health status. You can also view the event logs of each Media Center client.
Ian’s looking for your feedback on the add-in, so head over to his site, download and install the add-in.
Download: Media Center Health Monitor | More Info
18. March 2009 at 8:08 pm
I don’t have a media centre, but if I had one, I’d use the add-in right away. What I especially like, is the recording of events, even is the media centre is not connected. That is what you really want with a central device like the WHS. Well done !!
Sorry for the off-topic frustration following now, but there are some commercial add-ins/programs that could really learn from this (Avast for example
19. March 2009 at 3:15 am
I’d love to test out this add-in, but I’m not going to register at a site just to get a beta version.
Make it available at WGS or on a site that doesn’t require registration and you’ll get many more users.
19. March 2009 at 10:14 pm
Am I right that this doesn’t work with MCE 2005?
That may make me sound like a dinosaur, but my core stuff around here isn’t Vista based. (MCE2005 streaming to MCExtender running on original xboxes – not 360’s)
20. March 2009 at 10:31 am
Doesn’t work on my Vista Ultimate NL, I already contacted the addin author with the shown errormessages but didn’t get any reaction yet.
Nic
29. March 2009 at 3:12 pm
1 Warning zondag 29 maart 2009 17:10:44 AYBE1 saaiberke Unknown error – The data was truncated while converting from one data type to another. [ Name of function(if known) = ]
and still no answer from the add-in author
28. April 2009 at 4:21 am
Found your site by accident. Great work my friend