# NSSM windows service **URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/nssm-windows-service/1670 **Category:** Hardware Encoding **Created:** [April 8, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/nssm-windows-service/1670 "2018-04-08T20:12:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![RBoy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/RBoy) #### Post date: [December 15, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/nssm-windows-service/1670/9 "2018-12-15T21:14:42Z")
To add to what @goose said, if you have the MCEBuddy engine running on, say, 3 machines (all headless or remote for e.g.), you can monitor all 3 from your laptop remotely. Install the Remote Client in 3 separate folders and have each connect to the 3 engines. Now you can see in real time what all 3 engines are doing remotely. Also see this post regarding installing the engine on multiple machines: > [@Licensed for multiple computers?](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/licensed-for-multiple-computers/1439/2): > > Each purchase gives you the license to install the engine one a single machine. You can install the remote client on unlimited machines. You can also have multiple engines share a common queue and process files over a network/NAS drive. You can create separate folders for each engine or have different file filters so you can increase your processing power or use scripts for distributed processing: > [@Distributed Encoding across Multiple Machines](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/distributed-encoding-across-multiple-machines/61): > > Thanks to JoshDi for putting this together: I created a BAT file script to help coordinate distributed MCEBuddy conversions across my two machines: HTPC and HTPC-Bedroom (Bedroom) I run the following script every 5 minutes on both machines via task manager. No schedule is set (start stop) in MCEBuddy - the script handles the starting and stopping of MCEBuddy Conversions. Essentially the script does the following: Checks to see if Media Center or Kodi is running locally. If so, stop running M… --- _[View the full topic](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/nssm-windows-service/1670)._