PowerScheduler++ test versions (3 Viewers)

[Ballermann]

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

Hey Dominik,

this is exactly the topic I am concerned about, too.

I have several problems with waking up from S3 which was executed by PS++ automatic-idling-function and also via
the MePo Menu...

I made now a lot of test-runs and also wrote a batch which is showing if there are timers for waking up written into the
bios / cmos.

As long as TV-Service is running the timers are existing, if I am going to stop the service manually timers are gone, no waking up for recording

...so far so good...

"My Problem":
If PS++ is sending my system into S3, the TV-Service is getting killed / stopped - no wake up!
Maybe PS++ and MePo are "too fast" within sending system to S3(?)

If I am going to exit manually from MePo the TvService is still running / Timers are existing - but then the automatic idling function of PS++ is not working any more...

I have not tested with the most actual version of PS++ but I will do soon...

if there would be a function implemented into PS++ which gives the user the option and the possibility to enable and define something like:
- return to homescreen before S3/S4
- stop live tv before S3/S4
- exit MePo before S3/S4
- Pause between steps before S3/S4 = xxxx ms
- "keep tv-service alive" before S3/S4
- stop / start / restart tv-Service.exe when reactivating / resuming system (just to make sure to have a "clear" service)
- Pause between steps before reactivating / resuming = xxxx ms

....it would be more than great

(I think that would be a good solution for waking up problems)

 

[hafblade]

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

Hey Dominik,
- return to homescreen before S3/S4
- stop live tv before S3/S4
- exit MePo before S3/S4
- Pause between steps before S3/S4 = xxxx ms
- "keep tv-service alive" before S3/S4
- stop / start / restart tv-Service.exe when reactivating / resuming system (just to make sure to have a "clear" service)
- Pause between steps before reactivating / resuming = xxxx ms

I think the

- stop / start / restart tv-Service.exe when reactivating / resuming system (just to make sure to have a "clear" service)

is meant with reinitialize service on wakeup which can be found in the MediaPortal configuraiton.

and

- return to homescreen before S3/S4
- stop live tv before S3/S4
- exit MePo before S3/S4

shouldn't be done on automatic hibernation because it would destroy the idea of automatic hibernation due to the fact that the system should only go to hibernate / standby if there is no live tv or something like that running.
Furthermore, if you are using a remote to go to standby / hibernate you could program it to also send a stop, exit or something like this command or is this no possible solution for you?

 

[Ballermann]

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

I think (/hope) also that "reinitialize service on wakeup" is the option... but if tvservice is stopped (crashed/killed) when entering S3 - this option is useless if you want to wake up the system for recording...

- return to homescreen before S3/S4
- stop live tv before S3/S4

...this options are of course useless for automatic hibernation - but for manual hibernation with using the menu of MePo for that it would be great - just checkboxes for that...
...even if you would enable this boxes, the system would not go to S3 if you would enable "S3 only from homescreen" - so: no conflict

and additionally: -exit MePo before S3/S4
would also be useful for automatic hibernation!
...if you have enabled restart of MePo when starting / resuming Windows - I guess 90% of MePo users have activated that... (?)
if MePo is starting every time you resume it´s better to have a clean exit (without crash of tvservice!) before hibernation

You are right, I am using a remote - you can adjust that for example with the Harmony One...
but I also think that there are a lot of MePo users which are using ordinary non-programmable remotes...
additionally I am thinking about the Harmony900 - it´s higher class thann Harmony One - but you don`t have the option of configuring sequences like a stop before S3 with that 900-model... (!)

...so, no option

 

[Haraldpeter]

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

Hi,

I use WinXP SP3 on my second PC with MP 1.2.1 and unsure to install and use Powerscheduler ++ with this outdated OS.

Michael, do you recommend this ?

Best Regards

Haraldpeter

 

[revs]

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

Just another reminder - If you installed MP1.2.1 then you need to reinstall PowerScheduler++, as the 1.2.1 update overwrites it again

 

[michael_t]

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

@Haraldpeter
The PowerScheduler++ 1.8.0 code is based on the original PowerScheduler code so it should run also with Windows XP, though I did not test it myself, since I have no XP...

Michael

@moelski

Or in other words ... Are schedules deleted if you close the TV Server before the computer goes to sleep mode ?

I am not sure what you mean by "closing the TV Server". If you mean the TV service (tvservice.exe), then I ask me why you should want to stop it before going to sleep mode? It should be running all the time. Anyway, it might be (have never tested this) that the PC wakes up from sleep mode at the scheduled time, but it will not do any recordings since the tvservice is not running.

Michael

@Ballermann

"My Problem":
If PS++ is sending my system into S3, the TV-Service is getting killed / stopped - no wake up![/B]

If you suspect that PS++ kills tvservice.exe when going to S3, then please send me logs. This would be a serious bug that has to be fixed as soon as possible.

Michael

 

[Halan]

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

Hi,

i have some trouble with the windows vista powermanagment after installing the powerscheduler. Before installing wake on lan works great. But now after installing the scheduler my NIC doesn´t react anymore. But when i try to deinstall the scheduler my tvserver complains about missing files.

Are there any known issues about such a problem ?


Edit: After a rollback to a previous backup, and another install everything works as it should. Very strange behaviour. But nice Plugin. Great Work.

 

[Ballermann]

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

@Ballermann

"My Problem":
If PS++ is sending my system into S3, the TV-Service is getting killed / stopped - no wake up![/B]

If you suspect that PS++ kills tvservice.exe when going to S3, then please send me logs. This would be a serious bug that has to be fixed as soon as possible.

Michael

I just saw that 1.2.1 is released - the changelog looks good, especially: MediaPortal crashes on exit

I will try 1.2.1 in the next days - together with the newest version of PS++, maybe this will solve already the problems of crashing the tvservice when going to S3 (because of a maybe crashed MediaPortal when exiting(??)).

Some posts before a I already posted some of my logs where you can see that my TVService is stopped when exiting to S3 -
or which kind logs do you especially like to have?

Is there a small chance to implement the options I`ve mentioned before into PS++?
I am pretty sure a lot of users really like to have this options...

- return to homescreen before S3/S4
- stop live tv before S3/S4
- exit MePo before S3/S4
- Pause between steps before S3/S4 = xxxx ms
- "keep tv-service alive" before S3/S4
- stop / start / restart tv-Service.exe when reactivating / resuming system (just to make sure to have a "clear" service)
- Pause between steps before reactivating / resuming = xxxx ms

 

[Stepko]

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

Hi Michael,

first of all I would like to thank you for your power scheduler++. I use it for more than one year now and it works perfekt on my system.

I have a question reagring a feature or perhaps it's a feature request:
Is it possible to detect if the system is powered up by the user or by the system (e.g. for a recording)? Is it possible to execute some action (start external programm or send command...) if the system is started by the user? This action should not be executed if the system was started for a recording.

I searched for such a featured but couldn't find anything.

Thanks for your help
Stepko

 

[michael_t]

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

@ballermann
As I already worote some post ago, I need full MP logs to get an idea what is going wrong with your system when you suspend it during live tv. See in the first post of this thread how to create proper logs.

Is there a small chance to implement the options I`ve mentioned before into PS++?
I am pretty sure a lot of users really like to have this options...

• - return to homescreen before S3/S4
  could be made as option for PS client plugin
• - stop live tv before S3/S4
  - exit MePo before S3/S4
  - Pause between steps before S3/S4 = xxxx ms
  would not work since it would take too much time to complete before S3/S4 is entered (PS++ just gets an event that S3/S4 is beginning now and S3/S4 does not wait for any activity to be completed...)
• - "keep tv-service alive" before S3/S4
  tvservice is kept alive on transitions to S3/S4 (at least by design )
• - stop / start / restart tv-Service.exe when reactivating / resuming system
  this option is already implemented (Advanced tab in PS++ server plugin config)
• - Pause between steps before reactivating / resuming = xxxx ms
  which steps do you mean?

Michael