MCE Standby Tool 0.9.69: native MP support (1 Viewer)

[farstamannen]

This seems like a great tool but;
I am running MediaPortal on a PC with Windows MCE. I guess that is the reason why I get the eHome tab, which I am not interested in, and not the MP tab. How can I change so that I get the MP tab instead?

I have MePo running under MCE, and I get both tabs.

Strange that the MP tab doesn't show up for me. Is any particular version of MP required; I am using MP 02.2.0 (and MST 0.9.75.0), do you need to have MP installed in any specific location?
Is there any register setting you can change enabling the MP tab?

 

[rsbrux]

I don't know of any registry settings, but I am running MePo 2.3.0 RC2 with MST 0.9.75.
MePo is installed in the default directory, in my case C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

need to have MP installed in any specific location

Are you using the DEFAULT installation path or are you changing it, that may be the reason you are not seeing the MP Tab, also i take it you installed MST after MP.

 

[farstamannen]

need to have MP installed in any specific location

Are you using the DEFAULT installation path or are you changing it, that may be the reason you are not seeing the MP Tab, also i take it you installed MST after MP.

I have MP installed in D:\MedialPortal but I tested to changed that to C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\MediaPortal and now when I run MST I get the MP tab; so I guess that MST requires you to have MP installed in the default location.
Thanks for your help!

 

[hveijk]

@tourettes

The registry setting I gave simply disables the blanking functionality of MST. From 0.9.75 it has a few more debug options.

Changing the value to 3 will make the blanking transparent, 7 will make it white instead of black, this will ease the debugging.

On your system the black screen is not the MST blanker but probably some “side-effect” of the automated closing of MP when going standby.

- Try running MST with the “Do not close or restart MediaPortal” option selected, this way you can find out if its caused by the closing of MP or any other part of MST.
- Try increasing the “Standby delay” and the “Delay before starting eHome” (this one also works for Mediaportal).
- Enable the logging and mail me a log of the situation, please mention the exact time/date it occurred.

@The_Stig

Please keep me informed of your findings, I will do some testing myself.

@farstamannen

With version 0.2.2.0 and before there was no way to detect where MP was installed. MST checks the default path. I discussed this with the MP dev team, they came up with a solution which should be included in later MP versions.

MST V0.9.69 was prepared for this method. At that time it was impossible to test this, I will soon do some testing with RC2.

Installing MP on the default location will show you the tab for sure.

Herman

 

[tourettes]

The registry setting I gave simply disables the blanking functionality of MST. From 0.9.75 it has a few more debug options.

Changing the value to 3 will make the blanking transparent, 7 will make it white instead of black, this will ease the debugging.

On your system the black screen is not the MST blanker but probably some “side-effect” of the automated closing of MP when going standby.

I tested with the trasparent registry setting and the screen stayed black.

- Try running MST with the “Do not close or restart MediaPortal” option selected, this way you can find out if its caused by the closing of MP or any other part of MST.

With this setting the black screen issue was no reproducable.

- Try increasing the “Standby delay” and the “Delay before starting eHome” (this one also works for Mediaportal).

I tried increased the both delays to the max and it didn't help.

- Enable the logging and mail me a log of the situation, please mention the exact time/date it occurred.

Please find the log attached to this forum post.

 

[rsbrux]

The registry setting I gave simply disables the blanking functionality of MST. From 0.9.75 it has a few more debug options.

Changing the value to 3 will make the blanking transparent, 7 will make it white instead of black, this will ease the debugging.

Hi Herman,
for your efforts!
I was surprised to find these registry settings in my system, even though i hadn't "installed" MST.
What effect do they have when MST isn't "installed".

I am trying to isolate an intermittent "black screen" when resuming from hibernate. Since the system freezes up before writing any log data, I suspect a (sepcifically nVidia) driver problem.
Regards,
Roger

 

[tourettes]

The registry setting I gave simply disables the blanking functionality of MST. From 0.9.75 it has a few more debug options.

Changing the value to 3 will make the blanking transparent, 7 will make it white instead of black, this will ease the debugging.

Hi Herman,
for your efforts!
I was surprised to find these registry settings in my system, even though i hadn't "installed" MST.
What effect do they have when MST isn't "installed".

I am trying to isolate an intermittent "black screen" when resuming from hibernate. Since the system freezes up before writing any log data, I suspect a (sepcifically nVidia) driver problem.
Regards,
Roger

I guess MST doesn't delete thsoe registry entries when uninstalling (but in this case it's good so that you don't have to re "type" the settings when installing MST again).

Those registry settings doesn't affect anything else than MST itself, so they can't be causing any issues when MST isn't running.

 

[rsbrux]

I never installed MST at all. They must be created whenever MST runs (if they don't already exist.

 

[hveijk]

@tourettes

Your system seems to wake for an automated task, for some reason its not able to detect the it’s the user who woke it when MP isn’t running. During these automated tasks the screen is blanked.

When the system is in this state, could you please try to wake it by moving the mouse and pressing keys on the remote and keyboard?

Enable logging during this and mail me the result.

I will try to find a way to force the system to full wake state. I have been trying this in the past but was not able to find a way to do so. Any suggestions are welcome.

@rsbrux

MST requires to store some data because of the configuration options, even when its not installed.

Nothing scary about that, its just a couple of hundred of dead bytes sitting there when MST isn’t running. It will not influence your system or any program in any way.

Herman