WiiMC does a great job in my living room for some month now. Playing from shares really works! But (perhaps I’m the only one) there are some problems when accessing a shared folder from a NAS directly after the startup: The most time a NAS is in standby and the hdds are sleeping. So the first time you access a shared folder on a NAS via WiiMC there is some kind of a timeout and this mostly leads to an empty file list. You have to go a level up and enter the shared again to see the files.

I’ve tried a lot on the setup and it seems to me, that the timeout of starting the hdds in the NAS produces this behavior. So the easiest way would be to disable the standby-function on the NAS, but I don’t think this would be best way.

Whats about “pinging” each configured share directly after startup: WiiMC could try to access all shares (or only shares where this option is enabled). In this way a) the NAS starts the hdds and there is no timeout on access, and b) WiiMC could indicate (with some kind of an symbol) if a share is reachable.

In this case there is no real access on the shares, so WiiMC could to this in parallel, and has not do try each share separately.

Thanks for your great work!