making powersheduler "context sensitive" possible? (1 Viewer)

[smnnekho]

we have 2 mashines over here. one "real" htpc with tv& 500gb harddrives (my one). so this is the main unit and where everything is stored if not already burned.

the second one is a notebook. also with MP and "on demand" connected to a TV (my fathers one actually).

I use the powersheduler on my one and in fact i want to keep on it, but there is one problem:

when my father wants to look something he should be able to wake up my PC, via wakeonlan or wakeoncall. no problems for that, but after three minutes the powersheduler sends the computer to sleep again.

Is there any possibility to make the powersheduler know that he was waked up by someone else and he shouldn't go sleeping again. i know thats not easy because if my father finished looking the powersheduler wouldn't go to sleep again, but this is the better option in my case (-;

i know, i could use the webinterface (although the screenshot in the webremote is not working for me) or VNC to go to another screen and later to homescreen again - but well... this isn't quite what i expect to be my fathers most-liked chioce if you know what i mean (-;

maybe some of you have a similar problem and solved it somehow?
or this isn't that hard to implement as i think it is for the powersheduler?

 

[Spooky]

Hm, why exactly does the system shutdown after 3 minutes? When your father is watching TV or something with the htpc, the idle timer shouldn't have any effect?

 

[smnnekho]

Hm, why exactly does the system shutdown after 3 minutes? When your father is watching TV or something with the htpc, the idle timer shouldn't have any effect?

guess you didn't get me right.

my father looks on HIS laptop, but the files are on MY HTCP. so he needs to wake my htpc up to have access to files from his notebook. MP on my htpc just recognizes to be awake, that nothing is played or recorded and will go to sleep again

 

[Spooky]

ah, sorry, I see now Well that's indeed a problem I guess it will be difficult to find a proper solution. But generally, to make videos available for more clients, you usually would use a separate server to store them. So perhaps you could consider using the 500 gig hd in a server an tell MediaPortal do record on a mapped drive or something (which will cause problems too, I guess ). Or it would be possible to automatically or periodically move the recorded files to the server.

Just my opinion on this.

 

[tein]

My wish for christmas is options that you can use to say things like do not go to sleep when the CPU or HD load are over some configurable percentage.

That could be used to solve sleeping problems when using the HTPC as a file server, when defragmenting the HD or compressing video files with external programs like VirtualDub. Not all people have the need to run a separate file-server 24/7.

I have seen this type of functionality in an external scheduler but it would be nice if it was implemented in MPs own Powerschedular.

 

[Spooky]

Yes, that would be nice indeed. But I think this will never work 100% reliably. Because sometimes there could be HD or CPU load from some other program or even the OS itself which you usually wouldn't care much about.

I think the most reliable way would be a "stay awake" button in MediaPortal, which temporarily deactivates the idle timer of the powerscheduler, until the user turns the HTPC or the "stay awake" option off again

 

[smnnekho]

I think the most reliable way would be a "stay awake" button in MediaPortal, which temporarily deactivates the idle timer of the powerscheduler, until the user turns the HTPC or the "stay awake" option off again

imho such a "stay awake" button would be as less / much effective as simply not leaving MP in homescreen but any other menu.

 

[igalan]

I think that your best choice would be to use UltraVNC to control MP and go to a different screen, so Power Scheduler won't hibernate the PC. Or else consider a NAS (Network Attached Storage), there is no need for a full featured server. You could even recycle an old PC with http://www.freenas.org/ and leave the PC somewhere hidden where it doesn’t bother.

 

[onkl]

I think the most reliable way would be a "stay awake" button in MediaPortal, which temporarily deactivates the idle timer of the powerscheduler, until the user turns the HTPC or the "stay awake" option off again

imho such a "stay awake" button would be as less / much effective as simply not leaving MP in homescreen but any other menu.

Maybe a tiny helper app or script on the "main" machine, which can be lauched from the laptop, which flips a temp reg entry indicating "stay on" or something like that?