Indigo Domotics

I have recently encountered an issue with keeping the Indigo Server up and running. When my Mac performs an automatic OS X software update overnight, the Indigo server stops running and is not restarted until I log back in. I don’t think I changed any configurations, as I have never encountered this problem before. It is possible that, at some point, Apple defaulted my software configuration to automatic Mac OS X software updates.

The problem is that if I am traveling, a Mac OS X software update could be issued and installed automatically, thereby disabling my Indigo server while I am gone. I have UPS battery backup for short term power outages to keep the Indigo server up and running. But I don’t see an easy way to solve this new problem, other than to disable the Mac OS X automatic updates. I have included screenshots with the configurations on Indigo and my Mac.

Has anyone else configured a way around this? Thanks.

You have to have your macOS user account under which you installed the Indigo Server automatically login on startup. That is, Indigo Server doesn't start until that account is logged in.

The problem with that is that newer versions of macOS (Big Sur for sure, not sure about earlier) don't allow automatic account logins if you have FileVault enabled. This is most unfortunate. I understand why that did that, but they really should have a "Yeah, I really do want to auto login" option IMO.

The only way I know to avoid the problem is to not do auto updates (so there is no reboot), or turn off FileVault and then enable auto login for that macOS user.

Thanks, Matt. I will probably just turn off AutoUpdate.