PowerScheduler++ 1.4.0.x - Stable versions for MediaPortal 1.4 (3 Viewers)

[astrapowerrr]

Well I'm not in the luxury for having multiple systems..
Hahaha but do you know someone here who has a lot of remote experience? Or some people who wrote the mce software part?

 

[michael_t]

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.

Basically it is not a good idea to have a server (which is not only the tv server for MP) run client applications with user interaction ("...pushing button on the remote by kids it shuts down during the day..."). So in the long run I would recommend you to setup a distinct MP client that your kids can power on and off without problems...
Now for the current setup: You can prevent the server from going to sleep mode during daytime by configuring PS++ not to goto standby and entering away mode while a certain process is running. This blocking process must be started in the morning (e.g. by the windows task scheduler) and continues running during the day. In the evening, when you want your system to go to standby when not needed, the process must be stopped (e.g. by another task scheduler entry). To wakeup the server again in the morning you could configure the task scheduler to wakeup the system when starting the blocking process.
Note: You have to map all user actions (power button, lid close, remote power off, ...) to "sleep" and not to "hibernate" if you want them to enter away mode during day time. If these are mapped to hibernate, the system will always hibernate independent from what is configured in PS++. But you can ofc configure PS++ to use hibernate as sleep mode for the idle timer. Have a look at the PS++ wiki (advanced topics) for details.

Michael

 

[astrapowerrr]

Well found myself a simple solution. Just for anyone who ever finds this... I uninstalled ehome driver and rebooted... Case closed!

 

[doveman]

Hmm, seems kiwijunglist's workaround isn't going to work for me as it still goes to standby when the PC is busy (such as scanning media files to the library with XBMC) so I guess it only prevents standby when the user is actively using the PC. I don't want to have to try and add every process that might need it to a list, hence why I wanted to use Windows to control standby, so I guess I'm going to have to try and figure out why srvnet isn't being overriden by the requestsoverride.

 

[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.

Basically it is not a good idea to have a server (which is not only the tv server for MP) run client applications with user interaction ("...pushing button on the remote by kids it shuts down during the day..."). So in the long run I would recommend you to setup a distinct MP client that your kids can power on and off without problems...
Now for the current setup: You can prevent the server from going to sleep mode during daytime by configuring PS++ not to goto standby and entering away mode while a certain process is running. This blocking process must be started in the morning (e.g. by the windows task scheduler) and continues running during the day. In the evening, when you want your system to go to standby when not needed, the process must be stopped (e.g. by another task scheduler entry). To wakeup the server again in the morning you could configure the task scheduler to wakeup the system when starting the blocking process.
Note: You have to map all user actions (power button, lid close, remote power off, ...) to "sleep" and not to "hibernate" if you want them to enter away mode during day time. If these are mapped to hibernate, the system will always hibernate independent from what is configured in PS++. But you can ofc configure PS++ to use hibernate as sleep mode for the idle timer. Have a look at the PS++ wiki (advanced topics) for details.

Michael

Thank you very much, will try to setup this way.

P.S. My HTPC is not reachable for kids physically so only a remote is that interaction point. So scenario is not so vulnerable. All processes works perfect so in price permormance point of view it is the best architecture. I have been thinking to restructurize several times in the way to separate server but it is not really necessary.

 

[doveman]

Actually, it seems that the NFS Server should reset the Windows Standby timer itself as this shows for powercfg -requests

[SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Program Files\nfsd\nfsd.exe (NFSserver)

so I won't need to use PS++ Network/Share monitoring for that. The TVServerXBMC plugin uses SMB, so that's a different matter but it's so buggy I'm not going to be using that anyway.

I'd still like to know if PS++ resets the Windows Standby Timer on network /shares activity though or if the PC will go to standby as soon as the network activity stops?

 

[doveman]

I left my PC updating my Plex Library and it went to sleep in the middle of it!

I've got Windows controlling standby as far as I know but could you please check the attached log for me to see if there's any indication that PS++ had anything to do with the standby?

 

[michael_t]

I'd still like to know if PS++ resets the Windows Standby Timer on network /shares activity though or if the PC will go to standby as soon as the network activity stops?

If you check network monitoring standby will be prevented as long as the network is active, but the Windows idle timer is not modified. The same counts for all PS++ standby conditions. PS++ only resets the Windows idle timer if there is a user activity on the client (including media playback, slideshow etc.).

Michael

 

[michael_t]

I left my PC updating my Plex Library and it went to sleep in the middle of it!

I've got Windows controlling standby as far as I know but could you please check the attached log for me to see if there's any indication that PS++ had anything to do with the standby?

It's all Windows...

 

[doveman]

Thanks Michael. Think it's a shame PS++ doesn't reset the idle timer though, as that would prevent those situations where it goes to standby as soon as someone stops watching something on a client device.