MCE Standby Tool 0.9.69: native MP support (2 Viewers)

[Andreas26]

i was thinking about this too. there are a lot enries about problems with video cards.....but not in my case. everything works fine till i put the terratec into the pci slot. but i dont believe its just the card. there are too many people in here who got it running with the 1200 dvb-c. at least with some tricks.......but all of them do not work on my system. somehow i think its the combination with som other hw......maybe via chipset and nvidia card and terratec.......ahhhh help

 

[hveijk]

I haven't visited this place for a few days, didn't expect this many response.

Here we go:

1. When I download version 0.9.69.0 I don't see the MediaPortal tab. Do I have to have MP installed to see this tab, or is there something else I need to do to enable it? (I do not have access to my PC with MP installed right now)

That’s correct, the MP tab will only be there when MP is installed. Just like the eHome tab isn't there when your running a "plain" Windows version.

2. I've experienced some issues with TV Server. Would it be possible to reinit that as part of the resume cycle?

It's on the wish list since 0.9.69 came out. A future version (maybe even the next one) will include it.

On my system the screen blanking during shutdown seems to get "stuck" and when system wakes up the video output stays disabled.

....

Would it be possible to add a setting for that screen blanking?

There is a registry value for that. Open the following regkey:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Herman van Eijk\MceStandbyTool]

There is a dword value called "BlankScreen". Change this to 0 to disable the blanking.

Please report if this helps. It looks like MST is unable to detect MP is loaded, possibly the blanking needs some tweaking for specific situations.

However, have one issue. I already had an autologin setup and didn't want to configure this in MST, but MST disabled my existing autologin? Would it be possible for it to detect the existing settings when it is first installed? I haven't tried uninstalling it yet. Will my previous settings be restored?

MST is designed not change the auto logon settings by itself when they are already made. I can think of one scenario that might have this result. When minimizing MST with the reboot tab opened there is a situation the auto logon gets rewritten when the MST window is restored.

This should be fixed in the next release, I will check that.

The auto logon will not be restored when MST is uninstalled.

i now got my system to wake up if i press the power button on my remote. but if i enable the power scheduler ( standby ) i have a black screen when my pc wakes up. if i enable power scheduler ( hibernation ) it seems to work.....but: when power scheduler sets the pc to hibernation i am not able to wake it up manually from my remote. any ideas????

I think this is a different situation. Is there an option in your BIOS setup to reboot the video on resume? If so enable this. You could also try the nVidia fix (if you didn’t yet) or increase the standby delay (both in the debug tab).

well something else: can somebody tell me whats the different between pressing the power button on my remote ( whicj is set to standby ) and using the standby option in mp menue?? i have different reactions when using this both options

For MST there is a significant difference between those situations.

When using the remote its not the MediaPortal process that initiates the suspend. This way MST can close MediaPortal in a neat way, giving it the opportunity to finish everything it was doing.

When suspending from the MP menu its MediaPortal thats initiating the suspend. Now MP cant close because its waiting on the suspend command to be finished. This does not happen because MST is trying to close MP during the processing of this suspend command.

This situation is what we techies call a deadlock. Two processes are waiting on each other and will never come out of this.

After a timeout MST will kill MediaPortal in a less friendly way.

Is this giving you troubles? If so I can contact the MP team to figure something out. I have done a lot of testing on this, but without changes on the MP part this cannot be "fixed".

Phew,

Herman

 

[Andreas26]

hi hveijk and jipiieeee......ur the first one who can answer on the question......

there is no such option in my bios allready searched 4 this. but i also dont think my nvidia card is the problem......everything works fine....until i setup my tv cards......2 terratec cinergy 1200 dvb-c. i allready read that a couple of people got it running with those cards......but it wont on my system. i also know the reason why this is like this......the cards arent initialized correctly after resume. i allready tried every trick i read in the forum but no change. i even used the ms devcon tool.....works.....but after resume the bda tuner driver does not reinitialize correctly.......

please tell me you have an answer for this question too......i am really close to give up. i am also thinking about a new mainboard......but which one???

my system:

MAinboard: msi 7047 with KT880 VIA chipset
CPU: Athon XP 2400+
1GB Ram
NVidia Geforce 5200
2x Terrratec Cinergy DVB-C
Onboard 5.1 Sound

 

[hveijk]

Hi Andreas,

please tell me you have an answer for this question too......i am really close to give up. i am also thinking about a new mainboard......but which one???

I think the secret might be to run the devcon tool every resume to restart the driver of your tuner.

See this thread on how MST can help you to do so:

http://www.degroeneknop.nl/forum/index.php/topic,3717.0.html

Herman

 

[tourettes]

On my system the screen blanking during shutdown seems to get "stuck" and when system wakes up the video output stays disabled.

....

Would it be possible to add a setting for that screen blanking?

There is a registry value for that. Open the following regkey:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Herman van Eijk\MceStandbyTool]

There is a dword value called "BlankScreen". Change this to 0 to disable the blanking.

Please report if this helps. It looks like MST is unable to detect MP is loaded, possibly the blanking needs some tweaking for specific situations.

Thanks for the info. I'll test that registry key tomorrow and report back if it's helping with the blank screens.

 

[tourettes]

On my system the screen blanking during shutdown seems to get "stuck" and when system wakes up the video output stays disabled.

....

Would it be possible to add a setting for that screen blanking?

There is a registry value for that. Open the following regkey:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Herman van Eijk\MceStandbyTool]

There is a dword value called "BlankScreen". Change this to 0 to disable the blanking.

Please report if this helps. It looks like MST is unable to detect MP is loaded, possibly the blanking needs some tweaking for specific situations.

Thanks for the info. I'll test that registry key tomorrow and report back if it's helping with the blank screens.

It worked once... don't have any free time to test it more today. I'll report later this week how the tests have gone.

 

[sbeuerle]

Hi,

First of all - great tool, it fixed all my problems with stand by. I have however one last problem to make things perfect: I can not set things up in a way that my system goes back to standby after a recording.

I am using TVE3 and the latest SVN on a Vista 32bit System. Hibernating and waking up to record works like a charm. When I use the idle function in MST, my system constantly goes back to hibernate, even during the recording and no matter what I use for powerscheduler in the MP setup, it doesn't go into hibernating after the recording (or when leaving the system idel in basic home screen for that matter). I am using MP on a single system setup.

It would be grat if someone could give me a hint.

Thank you
Sebastian

 

[hveijk]

Hi,

First of all - great tool, it fixed all my problems with stand by. I have however one last problem to make things perfect: I can not set things up in a way that my system goes back to standby after a recording.

I am using TVE3 and the latest SVN on a Vista 32bit System. Hibernating and waking up to record works like a charm. When I use the idle function in MST, my system constantly goes back to hibernate, even during the recording and no matter what I use for powerscheduler in the MP setup, it doesn't go into hibernating after the recording (or when leaving the system idel in basic home screen for that matter). I am using MP on a single system setup.

It would be grat if someone could give me a hint.

Thank you
Sebastian

The current idle detection is not aware of MediaPortal activity or recordings.
Thats the reason it is blocked on systems running only MediaPortal and no Microsoft Media Center.

The only solution is to disable it.

At the moment I a working on a Vista compatible release, once that is finished I will probably start on an MediaPortal update.

Things I will take a look at: MP on Vista, include MP in the idle detection and a restart option for TVE3.

Herman

 

[Andreas26]

hi hveijk,

i allready did use the devcon tool.....and it works perfect before going to standby....but after resuming from s3 i cannot restart the bda tuner driver. i have to devices in my hw manager. a card driver and the tuner driver. i can restart the device driver.....but when i look in the device manager after restarting with devcon i see that the tuner driver is not working anymore.....error message 10 the device can not be started....

any idea?? the devcon tool seems to be a good start to solve the problem.....if it would just resatrt the tuner driver.

 

[rtv]

Inform the hardware manufacturer to fix their drivers...