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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyboyni" data-source="post: 811017" data-attributes="member: 115063"><p>Hi I have the latest media portal installed. I have been spending a few weeks just trying to get the tv side of it to work and its only now I have it working. What I want to know is if my method is the most efficent, as its not completely Wife friendly at the moment.</p><p></p><p>I have installed PowerScheduler++ to allow for the purposes of waking up the pc for scheduled recordings. The problem with PowerScheduler is that to hibernate the pc at night I must turn off the tv within media portal and then go to the main menu, this is much harder than simply pressing the off button on my harmony one remote. Also each morning media portal starts off in the Home screen so there is an extra button to press to get the guide, can it not just start on the guide screen each morning? Is there a better method than having to go to the main menu each time, what if im half way through a movie and I want to sleep, if I pause the movie and go to the main menu will that count has no activity and allow PowerScheduler++ to hibernate the pc?</p><p></p><p>I also run an external EPG freesat grabber each night at 3am (I gave up on media portals built in one long ago as its useless). I have set Task Scheduler to do the following:</p><p></p><p>1. Start calculator.exe and make the computer wake to do this (I need a process that I can add to the expection list of PowerScheduler++ so the computer does not idle and shut down after a period of time)</p><p></p><p>2. Start EPG grabber script.</p><p></p><p>3. Close calculator.exe task (this is so that when PowerScheduler sees this task as having ended it puts the pc in idle mode and starts the count down for PowerScheduler to hibernate the pc)</p><p></p><p>What I want in an ideal world is for the wife to be able to press the power off button on the remote each night and hibernate the pc from any menu within media portal, even if the tv is active. At present if I set this up it will mean I wont be able to do scheduled recordings as it breaks PowerScheduler. So is there any way of doing this while not breaking scheduled recordings.</p><p></p><p>Many thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyboyni, post: 811017, member: 115063"] Hi I have the latest media portal installed. I have been spending a few weeks just trying to get the tv side of it to work and its only now I have it working. What I want to know is if my method is the most efficent, as its not completely Wife friendly at the moment. I have installed PowerScheduler++ to allow for the purposes of waking up the pc for scheduled recordings. The problem with PowerScheduler is that to hibernate the pc at night I must turn off the tv within media portal and then go to the main menu, this is much harder than simply pressing the off button on my harmony one remote. Also each morning media portal starts off in the Home screen so there is an extra button to press to get the guide, can it not just start on the guide screen each morning? Is there a better method than having to go to the main menu each time, what if im half way through a movie and I want to sleep, if I pause the movie and go to the main menu will that count has no activity and allow PowerScheduler++ to hibernate the pc? I also run an external EPG freesat grabber each night at 3am (I gave up on media portals built in one long ago as its useless). I have set Task Scheduler to do the following: 1. Start calculator.exe and make the computer wake to do this (I need a process that I can add to the expection list of PowerScheduler++ so the computer does not idle and shut down after a period of time) 2. Start EPG grabber script. 3. Close calculator.exe task (this is so that when PowerScheduler sees this task as having ended it puts the pc in idle mode and starts the count down for PowerScheduler to hibernate the pc) What I want in an ideal world is for the wife to be able to press the power off button on the remote each night and hibernate the pc from any menu within media portal, even if the tv is active. At present if I set this up it will mean I wont be able to do scheduled recordings as it breaks PowerScheduler. So is there any way of doing this while not breaking scheduled recordings. Many thanks. [/QUOTE]
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