More power issues (1 Viewer)

[swamprat96]

I am still having issues. I am using a Logitech Harmony 515 remote. I have power scheduler enabled to make the system sleep after 5 minutes and also wake up for recordings (which works fine)

If I turn off the HTPC via the remote it goes into standby fine and resumes on my "watch TV" command which does the following and works perfectly
(copy from the Harmony setup)
Media Center -Media Center is on
Bose Bose is on (amplifier)
LG TV LG TV is on
Media Center Media Center is set to "My TV"
Bose Bose is set to "TV"
LG TV LG TV is set to "Component 1"


All good. But if I leave the HTPC on and let the power scheduler put the HTPC into Suspend it won't wake up on the above command set. However it will start if I manually select the power toggle for the Media Center.

1. Is the "standby" I send from the remote different from 'Suspend" set by the Power scheduler? I'm guessing it may be
2. If not can anyone explain this behaviour? Its driving me nuts

 

[swamprat96]

Well I bit the bullet and replaced the hauppage Nova T-500 with a Hauppage HVR-2210 - because the POS Nova locked up on resume often. Known issue I know but I decided it was going to condemn is WAF factor so out it went.

As a result I had to completely uninstall MP and do a fresh install. The power problem "seems" to be fixed- time will tell

Spoke too soon. Back to its old behaviour. For some reason the Powertoggle command is not sent by the Watch Tv activity- even though the software has been configured to power on the media center. This only affects the HTPC when MP power scheduler has put it into suspend. If I use the remote to power down it always comes back OK

So for now I've set Power scheduler only to wake up for events. Thats only recording anyway which we don't do much and we can shut it down manually

Any proper solution welcome

 

[Jay_UK]

Hi there,

Thinking about it, it will be one of two things....

I believe with the Harmony remotes when using the "Activity" feature, it remembers what state/last operation was. Have you tried using the the device option for the HTPC, as opposed to the Activity to see if it works?

Or check the suspend/wake states of the IR receiver in the OS and check the BIOS

J.

 

[swamprat96]

Thanks J

Yes it works if I go to device and hit the power toggle. So it looks like when Power secheduler turns off the HTPC, the remote still thinks its on and so sdoesn't send the power toggle.

If I could work out how to send a PC shift key rather than the power toggle each time I'd have the problem beaten as shift would do nothing if the unit was on but would wake the pc if it was off. I could do it with eventghost but I have enough delay already

Tony