PowerScheduler plugin 0.1 (wakeup/hibernate) (1 Viewer)

[MrMario64]

Fred,

Could you please set your plugin is not being default on?

I was suddenly surprised by my PC shutting down after running MP.
As several people had it @ the same time in the irc channel it's safe to assume it was your plugin.

@ default it was on, and also as default it was on "shutdown after 5 minutes of inactivity"

I don't think we should do this as default. As default it should do nothing.

 

[Anonymous]

How about splitting it up? Making one part a windows service that starts up media portal and communicates to the scheduler plugin over remoting or a webservice?

 

[Anonymous]

I may be on the wrong track here of course as I must admit to yet had the time to use it

 

[Anonymous]

Fred,

Could you please set your plugin is not being default on?

I was suddenly surprised by my PC shutting down after running MP.
As several people had it @ the same time in the irc channel it's safe to assume it was your plugin.

@ default it was on, and also as default it was on "shutdown after 5 minutes of inactivity"

I don't think we should do this as default. As default it should do nothing.

Sure thing, it will be default off in the next release.
I have also fixed the "Can't exit"-problem and rewritten the plugin to be a process rather than a window.
A release is to expect in a couple of days.

/ Fred

 

[MrMario64]

great fred!

 

[Anonymous]

How about splitting it up? Making one part a windows service that starts up media portal and communicates to the scheduler plugin over remoting or a webservice?

Not a bad idea but why not go all the way...
My dream is to have a backend service which handles recording and streaming also providing a webservices interface.
The frontend could be a GUIapp like MP or a webapp which will run in a browser on a computer or a dedicated frontend like the Pinnacle Showcenter http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ProductPage_n.asp?Product_ID=1491&Langue_ID=7

/ fred

 

[Schmidti]

Great work fred!!!
I don`t know if this could be an other way of turnon the computer. This will decrease energy consumption during shutdown. But perhaps this will be to risky do write wakeuptime directly in the bios. The place to write is different for each motherboard.

CMOS Bios timer against Hibernate/Standby:
I found a small programm that changes the wakeup time in the Bios for different kind of mainboards. If the values of your motherboard are not clear you can even check them easily by yourself.
The first tool like that was NVRAM-WakeUp for Linux.

NVRAM-WakeUp for Linux

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup

CMOSTimer for Windows

http://www.boraxsoft.de/CMOSTimer_eng.shtml


What is your opinion?

 

[Anonymous]

Nice idea but I feel that it would be too hard for newbies to use (the idea behind mediaportal is that it's simple to use)

Also given that new motherboards are coming out all the time it would grow stale quickly.

Other than that nice. I may well use it on mine.

 

[Anonymous]

Great work fred!!!
I don`t know if this could be an other way of turnon the computer. This will decrease energy consumption during shutdown. But perhaps this will be to risky do write wakeuptime directly in the bios. The place to write is different for each motherboard.

CMOS Bios timer against Hibernate/Standby:
I found a small programm that changes the wakeup time in the Bios for different kind of mainboards. If the values of your motherboard are not clear you can even check them easily by yourself.
The first tool like that was NVRAM-WakeUp for Linux.

NVRAM-WakeUp for Linux

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup

CMOSTimer for Windows

http://www.boraxsoft.de/CMOSTimer_eng.shtml


What is your opinion?

Thanks Schmidti,

This is my opinion...
Before I decided on how to implement the wake-up-feature I searched the web quite well and came across these BIOS timer programs. Since I wanted a simple (well, fairly simple) program to use and configure suitable for most people I went for the way suppoted by windows API though.
I've not made any testing regarding power consumption but I doubt you'll find the BIOS timer method using less power than hibernate. My wild guess is that windows uses the very same BIOS timer.
When comparing suspend mode to hibernate concerning power consumption there is of cource some difference since suspend mode to some extent keep memory, cpu and fans running.

Keep ideas coming!

/fred

 

[Anonymous]

I got this from a MSDN article
The operating system will track all timer objects and program the hardware with the next wake-up time when putting the system into the sleep state.

In Suspend (S3), my PC only uses enough power to keep the RAM active, CPU is off, and all the fans are off, so it uses only slightly more power than hibernate. (But startup is almost instant as the previous state in in memory, not on the disk)

I found this link most useful (But a bit out of date)

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/winpowmgmt.mspx