PowerScheduler++ 1.4.0.x - Stable versions for MediaPortal 1.4 (2 Viewers)

[doveman]

It does! You have to change it in the settings of HD Tune.

Oh yeah, that's probably been what's causing it all along then! Thanks for the tip.[/quote]

 

[doveman]

I'm finding that using the TV Server from XBMC running on my RPi, with the TVServerXBMC plugin on the PC, PS++ doesn't seem to register active events with Windows, so that as soon as I stop TV on the XBMC or shortly after, the PC shuts down, which is obviously annoying if I'm stopping TV to come and work on something on my PC!

Is there anyway to make PS++ reset the Windows timer (currently set to 15mins) as long as the Server's being used to prevent this happening?

 

[michael_t]

I'm finding that using the TV Server from XBMC running on my RPi, with the TVServerXBMC plugin on the PC, PS++ doesn't seem to register active events with Windows, so that as soon as I stop TV on the XBMC or shortly after, the PC shuts down, which is obviously annoying if I'm stopping TV to come and work on something on my PC!



Is there anyway to make PS++ reset the Windows timer (currently set to 15mins) as long as the Server's being used to prevent this happening?

If a MP plugin has to care about standby / wakeup there are two options:

1. It does its own power handling by calling SetThreadExecutionState(...) to prevent standby
2. It uses the PowerScheduler interface for handling the standby and wakeup

I do not know if the TVServerXBMC plugin does any of these, but you have to ask it's author and not me.

Michael

 

[doveman]

If a MP plugin has to care about standby / wakeup there are two options:

1. It does its own power handling by calling SetThreadExecutionState(...) to prevent standby
2. It uses the PowerScheduler interface for handling the standby and wakeup

I do not know if the TVServerXBMC plugin does any of these, but you have to ask it's author and not me.

Michael

Actually, I'm thinking I might be able to use PS++ Network Activity (or Active Shares but it depends what it means by "Active" as if it just means Open then I imagine this could prevent standby even after the actual media playback has stopped) monitoring but the question is, does PS++ signal the Windows Standby Timer to reset whilst network activity/shares usage is happening with this option enabled or will the PC go to standby as soon as the network activity stops?

It certainly seems that PS++ doesn't reset the timer whilst the tuner is being used, which I thought it would, or else the PC wouldn't be going to standby soon after stopping TV playback on the RPi. So does this mean that if the PC wakes for a recording, that it will go to standby as soon as the recording has finished?

 

[doveman]

I still can't seem to get Windows to reliably sleep. A lot of the time it does and then suddenly it won't and srvnet is mentioned, despite all the tweaks I've done to tell Windows to ignore that.

So I'm going to give kiwijunglist's workaround a try and let PS++ manage standby. I'll still need to keep it awake when watching video with the RPi though, which I presume I can do by setting the network activity monitor to 50KB/s but I doubt that will prevent it going to sleep when I'm just browsing through movies, music or video folders. The thing is, I use a NFS server on the PC to share the media with XBMC, not SMB and so I don't think I can use PS++ Shares monitoring, so any ideas on how I can manage that?

 

[Arturas1976]

I need some advice how to make such power profile using PS or regular windows power options.

Scenario is that my HTPC is a server also with MP, Plex server etc. All is shared with users via LAN and WAN. So I use it as HTPC as client and all services are widely used outside my house by friends also. So need is to not interfere outside usage.

I would like to setup that way HTPC is working on daytime hours and going to hibernation (wake up from standby problems) only from 2 am to 7 am. But not manually, it just go to hibernation automatically and wakes in the morning at 7. All work as client should go only to away mode.

Help please, because all methods I tried is not working correctly - usually it is not going to sleep automatically in that hour range as set in PS and pushing button on the remote by kids it shuts down during the day also.

 

[wawa79]

Hello,
PowerScheduler++ has significantly improved the resume/standby feature of my MP. I expected the upgrade to MP 1.4 to fix my last issue but it doesn't .

My PowerScheduler++ is not able to put my HTPC to sleep after 5 minutes, as it is supposed to.
But when sending an 'Off' command through my IRtrans remote, the computer goes to sleep instantly and normally as it should.
The TVService.log seems to report some activity before the 5 minutes are ellapsed (see the log starting at [2013-07-21 18:01:13,375]): can someboby tell me how can I identify that 'activity' (POWERCFG -REQUESTS does not report any driver other than TVService preventing standby) ? My Logitech wireless mouse/keyboard are Off, VNC is disconnected, there is no network activity... I miss ideas!

It looks I have this behaviour since I switched from WinXP+MP1.2 to Win7+MP1.3 (but there were so many other issues on resume at that time: standby issues are less impacting than resume issues, especially for recordings)

Thank you in advance for helping me in troubleshooting this.

You configured PS++ not to suspend while the "setuptv" (MP TV Server configuration) process is active...

Michael

Hello Michael,

I am just seing your answer now...
What is the problem with having PS++ configured to avoid suspend while setuptv is running? Am I missing something with setuptv behaviour? In the attached log, setuptv process is not running, MP is started and on the 'home' page and it seems 'some activity' is cancelling the idle countdown for standby. Could this activity be due to IRtrans or Enventghost or some other source?

Thank you for your support

 

[astrapowerrr]

I'm having trouble with my sleep button from my remote? I had this problem a week ago solved by removing a mce plugin in xbmc.
The plugin was conflicting with mediaportal.
2 days ago I have been trying to get my remote working in xbmc but I gave that up.. But that's another problem.
My problem is now that again my power off doesn't work anymore.
I deinstalled everything I used in xbmc but I just doesn't work.
So now I need to fix my mce key mapping or something to let it work again.
Do you guys ever had this problem or know someone who is able to help me with my problem?

So I know what happened just don't know where and how to fix it.. And I just REALY don't wanna reinstall mediaportal...

 

[michael_t]

What is the problem with having PS++ configured to avoid suspend while setuptv is running?

The problem is that as long as you have SetupTV.exe (the TV Server Configuration) running, your system will not go to standby. And since you had TV Server Configuration open to watch the suspend / wakeup status, you yourself are the reason why your system does not goto standby.

Michael

 

[michael_t]

I'm having trouble with my sleep button from my remote? I had this problem a week ago solved by removing a mce plugin in xbmc.
The plugin was conflicting with mediaportal.
2 days ago I have been trying to get my remote working in xbmc but I gave that up.. But that's another problem.
My problem is now that again my power off doesn't work anymore.
I deinstalled everything I used in xbmc but I just doesn't work.
So now I need to fix my mce key mapping or something to let it work again.
Do you guys ever had this problem or know someone who is able to help me with my problem?

So I know what happened just don't know where and how to fix it.. And I just REALY don't wanna reinstall mediaportal...

I am sorry, but this is the wrong thread for remote control problems. But one hint: Unless you really know what you are doing, it does not make sense experimenting with two media applications on one system at the same time - the risk of side effects is far too big. I am afraid that you have to uninstall both XMBC and MediaPortal and cleanly install one of them again.

Michael