MPStandbyHandler - Does Not Record On 2nd And Subsequent Recordings (1 Viewer)

[gperkinson]

Hi,

I have installed MPStandbyHandler on my machine, which has solved the issue with not recording after waking from sleep, however every subsequent recording after going back to sleep does not seem to record.

I noticed that the machine does not return back to the MP Main Menu where I left it before leaving it to go to sleep if that is any help.

Any help appreciated.

Regards

Graham

 

[5Hundred]

Remember MPstandbyhandler deosn't actually handle the recordings, this is done by TVserver. Can you check if TVserver is launched and have a look at its logs on the occasions when the machine wakes up but does not record.

 

[gperkinson]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply - appreciated.

I had another look at the MPStandbyHandler Gui last night and discovered the Test Resume / Standby option and noticed that Media Portal crashed on Standby. Realised that this was due to Watchdog running (saw this on another post) deactivated it and it seemed to Test OK.

Retested by setting 3 wakes and sleeps during today and the machine was sitting on the desktop when I powered it up (with the power button on the PC) and nothing recorded at all.

It doesn't seem to record at all at the moment.

Unfortunately by deactivating the Watchdog, I have no log on the TV Server anymore, but I guess the MPStandbyHandler log might show up something - unfortunately I had to reboot tonight and lost the logs.

Will try again tonight. Very frustrating that when I installed MPStandbyHandler the first time it seemed to record OK (not sure about the 2nd after going back to sleep) and now it doesn't.

Any other advice appreciated

Cheers

Graham

 

[josch.hh]

You will not lose the logs with the last version. It will keep the last 5 logs so that you can review what happend.
I really can't tell you why your recordings don't work. I heard from other guys that they don't have any problems with this tool.

 

[5Hundred]

Could you post up any error logs, that will help to see what's going on. Their should still be logs even with watchdog disabled if you look at te top of the configuration screens for MP and TVserver you'll see a folder, open that and inside should be your logs.

Also can you confirm that the machine is putting itself to sleep and you are not manually doing it as i believe this will prevent it from waking at the correct time.

 

[gperkinson]

Hi Guys,

OK, first of all the issue I'm having now is that the machine is not recording at all. Through all of this, I'm not forcing the machine to sleep manually at all.

Last night however, I let the machine go to sleep 20 minutes before a recording and it seemed to wakeup and record OK, however the other times it would have been several hours beforehand - not sure if that would make any difference or not, anyhow, I thought I should mention it.

Also, I'm suspicious that the machine might be trying to go back to sleep soon after it resumes. I have seen it do this before and the testing I have been doing has been in the middle of the night, so I have not witnessed what the machine has physically been doing.

Anyhow, I have attached all logs as per 5Hundred's request, and I have also attached a Word "log 081127" file which has the MPStandbyHandler logs and I thought I had better attach screenshots of MPStandbyHandler and Powerscheduler which might point out something.

Your help guys would be very much appreciated as this is extremely frustrating.

I also notice RC4 is out and wonder whether it might inlude fixes for sleep problems and Vista?

Regards

Graham

 

[5Hundred]

Thanks for the logs, it seems it recorded shorland st. ok last night, was this actually the case? If so has it failed since and when was that?

If you want to increase the amount of time before the Powerscheduler schedules a sleep event this can be configured within the plugin, i use 15 minutes as this stops the computer waking up and sleeping repeatedly in a short space of time, also i have mine setup so that it does not sleep between 6pm and 11pm each night if it has been woken, since most likely i will be using it at points between these times anyways. Again this can be configured within the plugin. Make sure you have the powerscheduler plugins configured similairly for both the TVservice and MP.

 

[gperkinson]

Hi 5Hundred,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Sorry, should have mentioned that in the log the Shortland St recording last night worked OK - this was the one I scheduled after letting the machine sleep for 5 minutes, so look further down the logs to see failings.

Just now I tested to see if the machine would record after sleeping for 30 minutes and it started MP from sleep OK, but nothing recorded. The recording was definately scheduled in MP under "Scheduled". I'm wondering if TVS was not running? Interesting the MPStandbyHandler log has nothing in it - see below.


29/11/2008 8:23:19 a.m. :: Info :: MPstandbyHandlerUser version 2.0.0.2
29/11/2008 8:23:19 a.m. :: Info :: RemoteServer - Started server on port 15677
29/11/2008 8:23:19 a.m. :: Info :: RemoteServer - Waiting for client connection

I will set the machine in Powerscheduler to 15 minutes as suggested and see what happens. I'm also aware of the stay awake times you mention and was going to start using this once the sleep issue is worked out.

Will set a recording for today and let you know how it goes.

Cheers

Graham

 

[5Hundred]

This sounds promising regarding the MPstandbyhandler log, i take it you have set MPstandbyhandler to stop and restart the tvservice? As it looks like the Tvservice wasn't started in the above case

I have setup the same thing to happen on my machine , i'll post up my standbyhandler settings for you to try later on and see if that solves your problem but from memory i have set MPstandbyhandler such that nothing is set to happen before standby and the Tvservice is stopped and then started after standby.

More soon, but try the above if you haven;t already

**edit - just seen your pics of your MPSH setup and realised that i do have a stop MP command on entering standby, however i dont have it set to always start, cant remember why but that seemed to cause problems for me.

 

[gperkinson]

Hi 5Hundred,

Thanks for the reply again - appreciated.

Just came back home to find that again nothing recorded. I arrived home when the 2nd recording should have happened to find the machine was awake, in the MP Main Menu, but nothing recording - very frustrating!!

I have a TVS stop (on standby) and start again (on resume) so that looks OK, however not sure about the delay and timeout settings - would be interested to know what yours are set to.

I noticed the "always start" setting was true, so I will try false and give it another shot this arvo.

Notice you are a kiwi - where do you live? I'm in Royal Oak, Auckland.

Cheers

Graham

I forgot to mention also that a message saying IR Has Stopped Working", however this is a Nova 500-T remote which plugs directly into the TV Tuner card i.e. is connected to a PCI Slot, so not surprising. My understanding is that it's only the USB Slots which have power in sleep mode. It might however point to the fact that the TV Tuner Card may not be up? This error does not happen every time though.