Since summer 2020, Synology has been selling its new x20+ DiskStations, currently consisting of the DS220+, DS420+, DS720+, DS920+ and DS1520+. In this post we explain, how you can install Lights-Out on Synology x20+ models and why a workaround for Mono is required. What’s different? These new models are based internally on the so-called Geminilake […]
Today we published update 3.5.2 of Lights-Out Mobile to Google Play and Apples App Store. You should receive the update soon on your device. What’s new in 3.5.2? We fixed a bug which affected users running Lights-Out 2.x on their servers. This bug prevent the activation of server actions in the app. We changed the […]
A public beta of the upcoming version 3.5.2 is now available for testing. This beta update corrects reported errors and includes support for the upcoming macOS 11 Big Sur from Apple. A further change is the continued reduction of the certificate lifetime to 1 year as of September 1, 2020, as forced by Apple and […]
We published Lights-Out 3.5.1 bug fix update today. This updated address a few issues which have been reported after the release of version 3.5.0. Bugs fixed Remove power action after backup for community editionMissing client wake-up by timer if server/NAS is offlineClient backup via calendar may fail to startLong delay if console is switched to […]
Platform independent In the context menu there is now a new option to disable Lights-Out on the server for 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16h. This means that the server or NAS is not controlled by Lights-Out for this period of time and runs through. Microsoft Windows The Windows client now supports the new “Veeam […]
In this article we will introduce the new server-side features of Lights-Out 3.5 in detail. An upcoming article will then deal with the client side. Concatenation of two servers Many users who switch from a legacy system, such as the WHS 2011, to Essentials 2016 or a NAS will then run 2 servers in parallel. […]
Lights-Out 3.5 is now available! First a word on my own behalf: The creation and release of this version was unexpectedly delayed. My father was in hospital for a long-time last summer and died at the end of October 2019, after which other things suddenly became much more important. Version 3.5 is therefore dedicated to […]
After the release of Lights-Out for Synology, QNAP users understandably also asked for an edition for their NAS. Lights-Out power management for QNAP is now available as first beta. Lights-Out brings an advanced power management to your NAS. It dramatically improves the simple, fixed QNAP power schedule! Now you can run your NAS on demand. […]
Today we are publishing two hotfix updates for the recent Lights-Out 3 release. Lights-Out 3.0.1 Update for Windows and Synology DSM Update 3.0.1 addresses some issues reported after the initial release of 3.0: #780958 Renaming IP device does not work (Console/Dashboard) #780958 Manually added device does not update first detected/last seen fields (Console/Dashboard) #772784 High DPI scaling […]
We are happy to release Lights-Out 3 for Windows and Synology today. In this new major version we are breaking new ground. Lights-Out 3 runs on Windows servers and now also on Synology‘s popular NAS systems. This finally fulfills an often expressed wish of former Windows-Home-Server users. As a result, they can now enjoy the […]