How to Manage the Orchid Recorder Services in Ubuntu 16.04 to 22.04

Orchid Recorder runs on Linux as a service. If you need to check the status, start, or stop one of these services, you can do this using the appropriate command at the command line.

There are two main services used by Orchid Recorder on Linux:

• Orchid Recorder Service: The main Orchid Recorder service that records and archives video.
• Orchid Recorder ONVIF Auto-Discovery Service: Used by Orchid Recorder to automatically find cameras that support ONVIF.

Tips

• After you’ve configured your Orchid Recorder properties and started the services, you should check the status of both services to verify Orchid Recorder is running.
• You will need to restart the services whenever a change has been made to the Orchid Recorder configuration file.
  

To manage the Orchid Recorder service from the command line:

1. Open the Terminal program (CTRL+ALT+T).
2. Type the following command: sudo systemctl (_command_) orchid.service (where the command is start, stop, restart, or status). Then press Enter.

*This set of commands will only manage the Orchid Recorder service. If you need to manage the Orchid ONVIF Auto-Discovery Service, replace orchid with orchid_onvif_autodiscovery in the command line as in the example below.