Starting and Stopping Thetis

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Starting and Stopping Thetis

Postby dmalcolm » Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:34 pm

I have a batch file that starts my digital applications. It does not start Thetis, because once Thetis is started it needs to be told to actually start working. I have another batch file that shuts down the digital applications. Is it safe to also kill Thetis, or does that really need to be shut down using its own menu system?
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Re: Starting and Stopping Thetis

Postby NC3Z » Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:23 am

dmalcolm wrote:because once Thetis is started it needs to be told to actually start working.


Are you talking about Thetis needing to be told to start? If so that is not correct, use the -autostart command line argument.
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Re: Starting and Stopping Thetis

Postby dmalcolm » Fri Dec 04, 2020 5:37 am

Thanks Gary I didn't know that.
The question is really, can I just kill Thetis? Or is it better to do a more graceful shutdown?
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Re: Starting and Stopping Thetis

Postby w-u-2-o » Fri Dec 04, 2020 11:56 am

You do not have to stop it before clicking the close box. It makes no difference. When you click the close box the software performs an orderly shutdown. You do not, however, want to kill the process. Stopped or not, killing the process does not release the connection to the hardware or write out the database properly.
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Re: Starting and Stopping Thetis

Postby dmalcolm » Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:45 pm

As I suspected but didn't know. Thanks.
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