"Old" screen after resume from standby (2 Viewers)

[gurkc006]

Hi together,
one question regarding the resuming from standby. Works like a charm, took my system 10 seconds to resume from standby. But for maybe 5 seconds after the graphics is switched on (appears on my TV) Mediaportal shows the last screen (old time) before entering standby, not responding to any inputs (mouse, keyboard). The clock stands still. After that "delay" the clock jumps to the actual time, running normal and normal operation of Mediaportal is established.
So my actual question: Would it make sense to change the screen of Mediaportal BEFORE entering standby, so that after resuming and waiting for normal operation I see a "please wait"-screen rather than the "old" menue.
I would appreciate such a feature, it confuses my girlfriend, when after resuming the menue SEEMS to be ready, but not responding...
Good night
Christian

 

[glenn 1990]

yes, that would be better. Now it's unclear when I can start pressing the buttons.

 

[gurkc006]

AW: "Old" screen after resume from standby

Yes, exactly. The only indicator, that MP reinitalized itself after resume is that the clock is running again (I switched on the seconds, so I can actually see, if the time is running again...)

 

[gurkc006]

AW: "Old" screen after resume from standby

I just had a short look into the SVN source code repository and I found the file
Mediaportal.Application\MediaPortal.cs
and therein the function
private void OnSuspend(ref Message msg)
which is called when windows hibernates or goes into standbye mode...
Maybe after line "SaveLastActiveModule();" something like the following could do the trick:

if (File.Exists(GUIGraphicsContext.Skin + @"\suspend.xml"))
{
Log.Info("Main: OnSuspend - Switch to suspend screen");
GUIWindowManager.ActivateWindow((int)GUIWindow.Window.WINDOWS_SUSPEND);
}

Of course the constant WINDOWS_SUSPEND and the suspend.xml has to be created first.
I haven't compiled MP yet and I'm going to my holidays now, but perhaps someone of you out there has a compiling setup and could try this out? Would be GREAT
Christian

 

[gurkc006]

AW: "Old" screen after resume from standby

I think I found the reason for the delay after resuming from standby. I was wondering that on a Mediaportal-PC from a friend there was no visible delay after resuming. Tho only difference is, that he uses wired LAN compared to my USB-WLAN-adapter. This morning I checked my WLAN connection after resuming and - That's it!
I had my TV switched on and resumed my system from standby, the PC was on within maybe 3 seconds (MP screen visible, clock not running, no reactions to keyboard or remote). WLAN was activated by Windows and after maybe 5 seconds, right after the WLAN gets connected to my FritzBox router the MP screen refreshed and worked normal.
So the "problem" (if cou call 5 seconds waiting a problem) seems to be, that MP waits for setting up the IP connection (wired or WLAN). I will ask the developers in another thread for this problem.
Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
Greeting
C

 

[glenn 1990]

Yes, my pc also takes some seconds to connect to the internet.
Nothing to do about, I guess.

Did you test your resume screen examle?, it would be great if it works.

 

[Spragleknas]

Logs, please.

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[glenn 1990]

It seems that the windows power event "PBT_APMRESUMESUSPEND" is causing the delay,
probably caused by a slow network card.

You can see the delay between red marked log lines.
It only happens on my htpc, not on my laptop.

I don't think there is anything to do about (the delay),
but it would be better if mp don't freeze of shows a loading screen.
(I'm sure, a lot more people run into this situation)

htpc:

[COLOR="red"]2011-09-19 16:24:21.984027 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: WM_POWERBROADCAST: 18[/COLOR]
2011-09-19 16:24:21.985027 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Windows has resumed from standby or hibernate mode to handle a requested event
2011-09-19 16:24:21.985027 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResumeAutomatic - set lock for syncronous inits
2011-09-19 16:24:21.986027 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResumeAutomatic - Done
[COLOR="red"]2011-09-19 16:24:33.693697 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: WM_POWERBROADCAST: 7[/COLOR]
2011-09-19 16:24:33.694697 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Windows has resumed from hibernate mode
2011-09-19 16:24:33.696697 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - set lock for syncronous inits
2011-09-19 16:24:33.698697 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - Trying to wake up the monitor / tv
2011-09-19 16:24:33.698697 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - Switch to home screen

laptop:

[COLOR="red"]2011-09-19 16:46:43.533173 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: WM_POWERBROADCAST: 18[/COLOR]
2011-09-19 16:46:43.534173 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Windows has resumed from standby or hibernate mode to handle a requested event
2011-09-19 16:46:43.536173 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResumeAutomatic - set lock for syncronous inits
2011-09-19 16:46:43.537173 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResumeAutomatic - Done
[COLOR="Red"]2011-09-19 16:46:43.538173 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: WM_POWERBROADCAST: 7[/COLOR]
2011-09-19 16:46:43.538173 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: Windows has resumed from hibernate mode
2011-09-19 16:46:43.543174 [Debug][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - set lock for syncronous inits
2011-09-19 16:46:43.545174 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - Trying to wake up the monitor / tv
2011-09-19 16:46:43.546174 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Main: OnResume - Switch to home screen

 

[Spragleknas]

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[juk]

Hi,
just to pick up on "gurkc006" point about changing the screen when coming from standby I would find useful, for example if one configures a delay to allow the TV server to wake up, at the moment the MP screen is just sitting unresponsive and doens't show the delay screen you would see when restarting MP, it would be great if it also switched to the delay screen after resume....

Just a thought if it is possible for the next version?!