PowerScheduler++ test versions (1 Viewer)

[michael_t]

AW: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.7.1 for MP 1.2.0 Beta

So... I did some testruns and attached the logs for them - hopefully the protocol I wrote is not too confusing

Thanks for sending logs at last.

1st and 2nd test:
From the logs I can see that you have a problem with your TV card / TV tuner settings. I do not know much about these things, but it seems that your system has big problems tuning the required channel on the right card. In the first test case it took about 2 minutes until the tuning succeeded (much too long), in the second test case it did not tune at all (and therefore no recording was active when you checked for it). After the reboot tuning was possible again. Since the schedule was still active, recording began now (regular MP behaviour - MP tries to make the best of a scheduled recording).

3rd test:
I cannot understand why the system did not wake up for the first scheduled recording, but from then on everything worked fine. Maybe the time between manual suspend and scheduled wakeup time was too short... I will try to reproduce this on my system.
EDIT: Just tested it here (set wakeup and suspended manually shortly before - no error reproducible)

I would propose that you check your TV tuner / card settings and when everything is working fine try testing wakeup / standby again.

Quite interesting... I took a look into the Windows Logs, it seems like the TVService.exe hasn´t been ended in a correct way while setting system into standby at the 3rd testrun

TvService should not be ended at all when the system is suspended...

Michael

 

[Ballermann]

AW: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.7.1 for MP 1.2.0 Beta

At first I want to say "THANKS!" for having a look at my problem(s)!

Hmmm... everything seems now very strange to me and meanwhile I am thinking that PS++ could not be the reason for the problems with not-waking up from S3.

You mentioned that TVservice.exe has not to be ended when suspending - where is PS++ writing the wake-up-informations?
Is it somehow belonging to the TVservice.exe - so that this exe has to run/not be ended to make sure system is waking up?

Is it possible to put the wake-up informations generated by PS++ somewhere "hardware-based" like to a RTC-event-memory (if something like this is existing(?)) - this could wake up system even from deep sleep or "off" mode via the BIOS-RTC.



Today I made another test-run, booting up system at 1400 - watching some TV, then programming a rec for a broadcast starting at 14:50 (--> 14:46:45), then suspending via remote to Sleep.

When I came back home I started the system at approx 1730 - and recognized that nothing happened meanwhile, no wake up, no record... again logs are attached.

Actually I am wondering about 2 certain things (again):
1st: System time
I think its ok that system is updating time when starting, but is it correct that UTC-Time is used for it?

2nd: TVservice.exe
crashed again, see windows logs...

...once I read "sowhere here" that MePo has problems with waking up if system was made sleeping via remote and not via homescreen (and there choosing the standby-option manually in the top bar).

Next step for me:
I will do now some test-runs just with shutting down / sending to S3 in different ways like:
- via remote while watching fullscreen tv
- via mouse, choosing top bar menu while watching fullscreen tv
- via top bar menu in homescreen
- via idling in home screen (automatic S3 after 5min)

to see if the tvservice is going to crash again. Please let me know if a proper running / not ending while going to S3
TVservice.exe is necessary for PS++

Brgds Balle

 

[Ballermann]

AW: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.7.1 for MP 1.2.0 Beta

first results for entering S3 and active recording timer:

- via remote while watching fullscreen tv: (using green button of remote as a shortcut to the question-menu "going to suspend?")
-->> no wakeup and no recording

-via remote after stopping live tv (stop button while live (fullscreen) tv -> clearing buffer -> going back to home screen -> green button of remote (see above))
-->> success!! Wakeup & recording!!!

EDIT 1:
I think I got the reason for not-waking up for recording!
The way MP is going to be suspended is very important!

In some more testruns it figured out that LiveTV has to be stopped when forcing system to go to S3 - I will go on with testing...

EDIT 2:
It seems like this problem with crashing TVservice.exe is only occuring when live-tv is in FULLSCREEN!

I tested S3 via green button in programm guide (with small live TV-pic), in homescreen (with small live TV-pic) and in moving pictures (with small live TV-pic) - timer was working always!

Just when live-tv is in fullscreen timer is not working when pushing green button for opening suspend-menu.

(hopefully) the last test run tonight: I was setting up two timers, went to homescreen, stopped live tv and used green button to suspend... in a few hours I will let you know if timers were working.

 

[lightman]

Re: AW: Re: PowerScheduler++ Version 1.2.0.10 (RC1)

...I was wondering if it would be possible to add a feature where you can enter the IP addresses of the MP clients on your network and make it so that the server will only power down when none of the client IP addresses are "alive" on the network.

This would be useful for multi-seat systems where there is centralised storage of music and film data on the TV Server. When the client is switched on, it will magic packet the server during recovery from hibernation, then the server will stay on until the client is no longer on. Effectively the server pings the IP addresses every 4 minutes and if there is a reply, then it doesn't sleep. ...

This is already working with MP clients (and the PS++ client plugin enabled). As long as the MP client is running, the PS++ client plugin signal to the PS++ server plugin that it should not suspend. The other functions (network activity, active shares are only needed for other devices (without MP / PS++ client plugin).

Michael

my client was on in the home screen, but after 5 min i get the message on the screen tv service connection lost
i went to my server i it went to standby.

 

[michael_t]

AW: Re: AW: Re: PowerScheduler++ Version 1.2.0.10 (RC1)

@lightman:
Please send logs; otherwise I cannot help you!

first results for entering S3 and active recording timer:

- via remote while watching fullscreen tv: (using green button of remote as a shortcut to the question-menu "going to suspend?")
-->> no wakeup and no recording

-via remote after stopping live tv (stop button while live (fullscreen) tv -> clearing buffer -> going back to home screen -> green button of remote (see above))
-->> success!! Wakeup & recording!!!

EDIT 1:
I think I got the reason for not-waking up for recording!
The way MP is going to be suspended is very important!

In some more testruns it figured out that LiveTV has to be stopped when forcing system to go to S3 - I will go on with testing...

EDIT 2:
It seems like this problem with crashing TVservice.exe is only occuring when live-tv is in FULLSCREEN!

I tested S3 via green button in programm guide (with small live TV-pic), in homescreen (with small live TV-pic) and in moving pictures (with small live TV-pic) - timer was working always!

Just when live-tv is in fullscreen timer is not working when pushing green button for opening suspend-menu.

(hopefully) the last test run tonight: I was setting up two timers, went to homescreen, stopped live tv and used green button to suspend... in a few hours I will let you know if timers were working.

It should be ok to suspend a PC during full screen live tv and TvService should not crash. I need full MP logs to get an idea what is going wrong with your system when you suspend it during live tv...

Michael

 

[lightman]

Re: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.7.1 for MP 1.2.0 Beta

can you make a new package for the MePo 1.2.0 RC

thnx already

 

[Ballermann]

AW: Re: AW: Re: PowerScheduler++ Version 1.2.0.10 (RC1)

It should be ok to suspend a PC during full screen live tv and TvService should not crash. I need full MP logs to get an idea what is going wrong with your system when you suspend it during live tv...

Michael

I will make some testruns with suspending from fullscreen-liveTV further on and will post the complete watchdogs-logs here.

BTW: I opened another thread in the german-language forum especially concerning the crashes of TVservice.exe when suspending via "green-button" from fullscreen-live-TV because it came to my mind that PS++ maybe is not the reason for crashing (?).

Just to make sure what I do mean with "green-button" here are my remote-control-mappings where you can see that my green button (normally used for teletext only) is mapped to the action "suspend".

 

[D3ltoroxp]

AW: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.8.0 for MP 1.2.0 RC

Seems to be run fine for me now. i see no problems...

 

[Wbunaarf]

Re: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.8.0 for MP 1.2.0 RC

Michael,

When trying to update from the extension installer the download fails with an error 404, 'couldn't be found', and then 'Can't locate the installer package'.

Installing the mpi attached to the first post worked fine, but the TV server doesn't seem to be restarted after installation has finished. Is this intentional?

//W

 

[michael_t]

AW: Re: PowerScheduler++ Test Versions - 1.1.8.0 for MP 1.2.0 RC

The extension installer has no (correct) information about PS++ test updates, because the update.xml file refers only to the stable versions. So manual installation with the downloaded MPEI file from this post (like you did) is the best way to update a PS++ test version.
The installation process has to stop the TvService to change files. This is done (or better: tried to be done) twice: once before starting the uninstallation and once before starting the (update) installation. Though I try to make sure that the TvService (and the tvservice.exe) are stopped, this fails sometimes and the server files are not updated correctly. This might be the reason, why the TvService did not restart correctly after installation...

Michael