PowerScheduler unconditionally checks every second (1 Viewer)

[rr8]

I am still having a problem with this on version 1.2.3. I replaced my powerscheduler with the one above and it fixed it. Will this code get implemented in the official version?

 

[mm1352000]

*bump*
@Oxan: do we have a mantis for this? I'd consider it a prime candidate for MP 1.3b. I don't use PS but I get quite sick of the multi-MB logs that I have to look through which are often full of PS logging.

 

[tourettes]

https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1/pull/11

Oxan:

Closing the pull request as I unfortunately don't see a way to fix this without rewriting half of the PowerSchecduler plugin (and I don't really want to do that)...

 

[mm1352000]

Thanks tourettes. So for the long log files it seems like all we can do is ask people to disable the extended logging option.
Marking the thread as "will not fix".

 

[tourettes]

Thanks tourettes. So for the long log files it seems like all we can do is ask people to disable the extended logging option.
Marking the thread as "will not fix".

Extended logging should be enabled only for troubleshooting purposes.

 

[doveman]

Thanks tourettes. So for the long log files it seems like all we can do is ask people to disable the extended logging option.
Marking the thread as "will not fix".

Extended logging should be enabled only for troubleshooting purposes.

True, but when running alpha versions it seems desirable to leave extended logging on for everything as you never know what component/plugin might cause an error and so if it turns out to be a PS bug you'd want the verbose log filesfor that but of course if it's something else that you're reporting about it's annoying for people to have to look through the log files. Perhaps it would be possible to have PS log to it's own separate file?

Just an idea but perhaps it would be possible to make a much simpler PS plugin for single-seat users who let Windows control Standby? Just thinking the code might be a lot simpler without the various options the current plugin has. All that might be needed is the "Wakeup server" option from the General tab (although that probably could be hardcoded as I can't see why anyone would want to disable this), all the options from the Advanced tab except Forced Shutdown and maybe the EPG tab but I don't think that's really necessary as the EPG (Freeview) seems to update fine in normal use for me.

 

[Oxan]

We could change the extended logging a bit so that it outputs the same information in about 1/6th of the lines though. I can imagine that would help to reduce the log sizes quite a bit.

A real solution will require to rewrite the PowerScheduler, which is probably a good idea. However, given the enourmous amount of spaghetti-code there currently is and different behaviour of all Windows versions, I bet no one is willing to do that.