we've got an autonomic mirage mms-2a and each time the power goes off to it (either through a power cut or because its turned off at the wall) the mirage dosnt turn its self back on when power is restored, is there a way to get it to turn back on when power is restored ?

Sounds like when you phone them about this, they'll go "uh, well, gee...." or "We've never heard of this problem before." It definitely sounds like an oversight. And there's nothing about it in the manual at all. Obviously the power switch does not just interrupt all power to the unit. Something else is going on.

You've gotta give 'em kudos, though, for being one of the first companies to realize that, even though engineers waited for almost twenty years for blue LEDs to be invented, they're not so spiffy that we want them on all the time. A not so bright green, or even red, would be much better. These guys let you turn off the blue LEDs!

On the mms-2 you could go into the bios to set to turn on after power outage
Not sure if the 2a behaves the same

The manual doesn't mention anything about this. Are you saying this because BIOS just always has such a choice, or do you have particular knowledge?

Why? Why do you assume that that's the response you're going to get from them? I have talked with their tech support on a few things and they've been great every single time. I'd stay stick to what you know but then you'd never have anything to say.

I asked them about this a few years ago. At that time, the only option was to send a Wake on LAN packet. I don't know if things have improved since then.

Any idea why autonomics use a keyboard and screen BIOS rather than a web GUI ? seems an antiquated way of doing it.

It's because under the hood, it's basically just a computer running Windows Embedded...
But they do have a web gui too.

@wozman, The web gui from what i can see only allows you to chose a track and set the volume - is there an 'admin tab' ?

It may be slightly different on the unit im using as im using a Savant version that has a slightly differnet version of firmware running on it to allow it to work with Savant, although the hardware is the same.

there is a settings or config web gui as well. The config gui allows you to set up your music services, network shares, manage itunes integration, and a bunch of other stuff.

But it does not contain the bios setting refereed above. for thatyou need to boot the player with a keyboard attached and hit Del (Or f2?) to change that setting.

This is correct. There should be an option under either Chipset or South Bridge Configuration called Restore AC Power Loss. Change it to Power On and it should boot normally after a power outage.

Jesus you’d think that would be the default config. Wtf?

its actually a bit dangerous with the MMS systems. If the Power goes out while the unit is booting, I've seen them crash and get hung up to a point where they need to get rebuilt.

I was wondering why that would be a problem but then realized that if you connect power momentarily to one of these units, it starts rebooting, then you wiggle the plug to reseat it, you'd be removing power while it's booting.

Evidently "power on upon reset" is only safe with dumb things that can't be damaged by having processes interrupted by loss of power. This now makes sense.

Hey Everyone,

The below only affects the MMS-2A and MMS-5A. All has been corrected with our newly released MMS-3E and MMS-5E.

ctjordan33 is correct in the option to Restore AC after a Power Loss that is located in the BIOS settings. Our Tech Support team can help you through this process if you are experiencing this problem on A series units.

There was also a FW bug that was causing some units to not power back on after a FW update or power loss even if the above setting was set. This has been corrected in FW so please make sure the FW on your A series units in the field are up to date.

Let me know if this helps.