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[4roma]

Thanks ghanz for this solution!!

I finally have a stable, working system again. Power Scheduler was the problem maker. Since disabeling it and working with MCEStandbyTool, I have no issues with TV anymore. Thanks again, you saved me a lot of frustration.

One thing with it though. My system is set to go into standby after 30 minutes, through Windows power management. It appears MCEStandbyTool or Windows is not registering the use of the system when watching a movie in MP. As soon as I press stop, or the movie ends after more than 30 minutes, my system goes into standby immediately. So during the movie nothing strange, but as soon as it stops, my system goes to sleep. Any thoughts on this?

 

[ghanz]

Yes this is a difficult one. I also have found out it is definitly power scheduler that causes the problems. MCE standby tool fixes this, however I will now try to find out wether both of them can be left out. This will mean a clean install of MP. Do not make the mistake to enable powerscheduler after installing MST. I did that to see how recordings would function. This made everything go bad. really bad. So I cleaned up the install of MP and will now try to make things stable from install.

wish me luck the wife is on my back.

 

[4roma]

I know what you mean.

I installed a previous version of MCE StandbyTool (0994), hoping it will recognize better when the system is used by MediaPortal, so it will not go into standby as soon as a movie is stopped. I'm gonna test it this evening.
Thanks for the heads up about not combining MCE StandbyTool and PowerScheduler. I was thinking of doing a bit of testing there myself, but leave it now as it is.

Good luck with the installation.

 

[ghanz]

Just installed from scratch, immediatly ensured that power scheduler wasn't enabled. havent found instablility problems yet. Testing of night recordings as well as reboots further this week (wife has threatened to throw the mediaCenter in the garbage if this fails and I think she means it So i'm taking this very carefully step by step.

keep you updated

 

[ghanz]

All went to shit again, all old issues are back, be it less frequent. I went back to de-installation of MCE and determined to get the system working. I'm now back at manually shutting down the system at night if I'm not recording and running it up in the morning for the wife and kids. I have powerscheduler installed, but sleep buttons disabled on the harmony remote, so it stays on.

I searched the logs and basically found out that the tvserver keeps failing at wake-up due to a tvlibrary expection. Further investigation pointed to a PID hardware filtering problem on the firedtv. (tried the TVlibrary.dll from Morpheus, did not work) W7MCE doesn't have a problem with it, but maybe MP does. First thing I will do now is update the Alphacrypt.

4Roma can you tell me which alphacrypt version you are running?

 

[4roma]

Odd, same issue started here too. I'm getting Graph errors every now and then. Not frequent, but they started again out of the blue. I now have my system do an auto reboot every morning at 6. This way the errors seem to pop up less often. I have PowerScheduler not enabled. Not in TV Server and not in the client, , still use MCE StandbyTool. Very, very dissapointing this is. I'm a bit tired of this bug (to me it is a bug, though the dev's seem to dissagree).

I can't open my system to check the exact version of my Alphacrypt, but the invoice tells me it's an Alphacrypt Multicrypt CI Module. Is this info of any use to you? How can you update the Alphacrypt?

 

[ghanz]

AlphaCrypt: Home This is the manufacturer, it provides a firmware update for the blue alphacrypt classic. You can check the firmware version with the firedtv support tool. Newest firmware is 3.19 you can download it and install it on the alphacrypt by a xp laptop with a PCMCIA slot. First you have to install a driver, which is also provided. My alphacrypt is running I think on 3.12 or so. If you download the zip file there is a changelog which again looks promissing.....If this does not work..

edit: it is not in the support tool, however if you haven't upgraded it yet and it is older than 6 months it is worth trying. i have just upgraded so now in the testing phase

 

[ghanz]

4Roma,

I updated my alphacrypt to 3.19, which resulted in no change whatsoever. I have now MCE standby tool installed and have isolated the problem further. When I came out of standby I could hear windows giving a sound (same as connecting hardware). this lead me to think that the firedtv card was detected as new hardware to late in resuming OS. I started experimenting with delay in detecting the card (no use). I opened mce standby tool and found that the problem is direct related to the 'selective usb setting' (i need to deselect disable usb on the tab in MCE standbytool. Whenever this is deselected, so selective usb is enabled TVserver remains working! So no errors!

I will now try to enable this without MCE standby tool. Also : do you have a USB external drive coupled to your computer? Do you have a MCE remote reciever usb connected? I'm getting close to fixing this!

 

[4roma]

Ghanz, what FloppyDTV version do you have? There is a batch of them that are having issues with power, when resuming from standby. It appears to be an issue with the power cable. Digital Everywhere developed a special cable that fixes this issue. Problem though is that Digital Everywhere stopped with their business. I filed a support request for the cable, but unfortunately no response yet.

My hardware version: 1.26.02
Firmware version: 2.4.4 - B61030

The issue we are experiencing looks very much like the issue the faulty cable creates.

More info here and here.

 

[ghanz]

thanks, 4Roma,

i will look inot this immediatly, however 7MCE has no problems with it? I still strugle big time,only workable solution is leaving the thing on under MP. I am seriously looking in a hybrid system, where i use 7MCE for tv and MP for the rest. I don't think watching tv in MP is ever gonna work with standby function

Thanks!

edit:

It does look like this could be the holy grale! Lets try this.

On the french website it shows that you only need to soldeer a transistor between the cables. easy enough, however it is stil strange it doesnot need one in 7mce. It might have something to do with the different driver.
I will first see if I can see the lights blinking, than alter the cable.

If this does not work, I'm building the hybrid version, using 7MCE for TV and altering the interface to let MP do all the rest (MCEstudio