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I have a couple of questions regarding sleep mode. Set it up on both server (HTPC) and client side yesterday. WOrks well when I physically put the computers to sleep by pressing the sleep button however a few issues mainly on client side. When client side is in home screen and media portal has just been opened, the computer will sleep properly but this morning I had a scheduled restart. I woke up 4 hours later and turned my tv on and noticed the computer (client) was in Away mode rather than full sleep. Last night I was watching a recording before I went to bed & I physically put the computer to sleep. Sleep timers are set at 60minutes.

To check that sleep was working properly I closed MP and set the sleep timer to 1minute. Sleep worked fine and computer went to sleep. Then I opened MP and didnt touch anything just left it at home screen, again computer went to sleep. Now I started to watch a live tv channel and then pressed the home button. The tv channel was still showing in the corner in the little box but it was on the home screen. SHould the computer now not go to sleep after 1 minute as long as it is at the home screen even if a tv channel is displayed? After 4 minutes (sleep timer set to 1minute for the test) it was still awake.

I then restarted the client side and reset the sleep timers back to 60 minutes for my test to see if it will sleep with MP just opened for the first time but doing nothing.. I checked server side downstairs this was also in away mode which I can understand because the client side was streaming tv from it not so long ago. However since the client was rebooted the client is sat at the home screen doing nothing and on the server side in TV server config for PowerScheduler++ it says RemoteClient is preventing sleep? Why would this happen if the client is not doing anything but sat at the home screen would it not just lose its connection from the server?

So questions are why did the client not go back to sleep and only enter away mode after the reboot at 6am (sleep timers at 60mins and was in away mode at 11am)? Also why does it not enter sleep mode if I press the home button and the preview tv window is in the bottom corner still - only seems to enter sleep mode if I have just opened MP for the first time & not touched it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the behaviour of the client and the server side?

If someone could shed some light on this then I would be greatful.

Thank you.
Richard.

<blockquote data-quote="richardc1983" data-source="post: 922263" data-attributes="member: 131658">Hi there&nbsp;I have a couple of questions regarding sleep mode. Set it up on both server (HTPC) and client side yesterday. WOrks well when I physically put the computers to sleep by pressing the sleep button however a few issues mainly on client side. When client side is in home screen and media portal has just been opened, the computer will sleep properly but this morning I had a scheduled restart. I woke up 4 hours later and turned my tv on and noticed the computer (client) was in Away mode rather than full sleep. Last night I was watching a recording before I went to bed &amp; I physically put the computer to sleep. Sleep timers are set at 60minutes.&nbsp;To check that sleep was working properly I closed MP and set the sleep timer to 1minute. Sleep worked fine and computer went to sleep. Then I opened MP and didnt touch anything just left it at home screen, again computer went to sleep. Now I started to watch a live tv channel and then pressed the home button. The tv channel was still showing in the corner in the little box but it was on the home screen. SHould the computer now not go to sleep after 1 minute as long as it is at the home screen even if a tv channel is displayed? After 4 minutes (sleep timer set to 1minute for the test) it was still awake.&nbsp;I then restarted the client side and reset the sleep timers back to 60 minutes for my test to see if it will sleep with MP just opened for the first time but doing nothing.. I checked server side downstairs this was also in away mode which I can understand because the client side was streaming tv from it not so long ago. However since the client was rebooted the client is sat at the home screen doing nothing and on the server side in TV server config for PowerScheduler++ it says RemoteClient is preventing sleep? Why would this happen if the client is not doing anything but sat at the home screen would it not just lose its connection from the server?&nbsp;So questions are why did the client not go back to sleep and only enter away mode after the reboot at 6am (sleep timers at 60mins and was in away mode at 11am)? Also why does it not enter sleep mode if I press the home button and the preview tv window is in the bottom corner still - only seems to enter sleep mode if I have just opened MP for the first time &amp; not touched it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the behaviour of the client and the server side?&nbsp;If someone could shed some light on this then I would be greatful.&nbsp;Thank you.Richard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="richardc1983, post: 922263, member: 131658"] Hi there I have a couple of questions regarding sleep mode. Set it up on both server (HTPC) and client side yesterday. WOrks well when I physically put the computers to sleep by pressing the sleep button however a few issues mainly on client side. When client side is in home screen and media portal has just been opened, the computer will sleep properly but this morning I had a scheduled restart. I woke up 4 hours later and turned my tv on and noticed the computer (client) was in Away mode rather than full sleep. Last night I was watching a recording before I went to bed & I physically put the computer to sleep. Sleep timers are set at 60minutes. To check that sleep was working properly I closed MP and set the sleep timer to 1minute. Sleep worked fine and computer went to sleep. Then I opened MP and didnt touch anything just left it at home screen, again computer went to sleep. Now I started to watch a live tv channel and then pressed the home button. The tv channel was still showing in the corner in the little box but it was on the home screen. SHould the computer now not go to sleep after 1 minute as long as it is at the home screen even if a tv channel is displayed? After 4 minutes (sleep timer set to 1minute for the test) it was still awake. I then restarted the client side and reset the sleep timers back to 60 minutes for my test to see if it will sleep with MP just opened for the first time but doing nothing.. I checked server side downstairs this was also in away mode which I can understand because the client side was streaming tv from it not so long ago. However since the client was rebooted the client is sat at the home screen doing nothing and on the server side in TV server config for PowerScheduler++ it says RemoteClient is preventing sleep? Why would this happen if the client is not doing anything but sat at the home screen would it not just lose its connection from the server? So questions are why did the client not go back to sleep and only enter away mode after the reboot at 6am (sleep timers at 60mins and was in away mode at 11am)? Also why does it not enter sleep mode if I press the home button and the preview tv window is in the bottom corner still - only seems to enter sleep mode if I have just opened MP for the first time & not touched it? Maybe I am misunderstanding the behaviour of the client and the server side? If someone could shed some light on this then I would be greatful. Thank you. Richard. [/QUOTE]