PVRScheduler assistance if you would be so kind (1 Viewer)

[Teebor]

No details about MP as MP is working a treat and this seems to be solely a PVR problem so I am hoping someone can point out what I have done wrong.

I posted this same message in the PVR forums but they seem to be quite dead at the moment (time of year maybe) so I am just repeating it here in the hope someone can poke a glaringly huge whole in it

The problem is quite simply that the machine wakes up from standby at the time interval I set for PVRScheduler to wake up ready for recording and it will then sit there for a couple of minutes (machine on time is very very short from standy at less than a minute) and then the machine goes back to sleep before recording is due to start.

PVR set to wake up 5 minutes before program is due to start (works ok)
MP set to record 1 minute before program start (works fine)
PC boots from standby in under 1 minute (always been fine)

Problem:-
Pc wakes at 2055 and then sits idle
at 2058 machine goes back to sleep
at 2059 recording should have started but PC is asleep

Now PVR is set to a 10 minute idle timer so this should be ok.

If I wake the pc using the remote/usb device/keyboard the machine fires up and starts recording (even if it is now late) and if I then leave it the machine will go to sleep again 10 minutes after the program has stopped recording (which is how I have set it up) and then the cycle begins again.

What settings have I missed? or set wrong?

I tried reducing the start up time to 3 minutes before program start but all that meant is when MP should have started recording the machine went to sleep instead of letting it record.

Things I have just changed but not tested yet are the opening and closing of media portal on putting the machine to standby which I am hoping might create "activity" to keep it awake a few more minutes.

Also double checked the programs to be recorded are showing up in PVR and they are so it knows that they are meant to be recorded which I am guessing is why it is turning the machine on in the first place.

I'm using PVR 1.5.5 with media portal 0.2.2.0 and also updated to an SVN which is now only three days old but its still doing it :/

 

[Taipan]

I have experienced a similar problem with PVR Scheduler and according to STSC, it is a Windows issue. I thought that STSC had fixed this issue in v1.5.5, but maybe not?

Try setting the start offset value to be the same for both Mediaportal and PVR Scheduler (1 minute), so that the recording is started before the 2 minute idle time is triggered in Windows. PVR Scheduler will actually wake the PC about a minute earlier than the time you set, so the PC is fully resumed and ready at the correct time.

It would be useful to PM STSC (the author of PVR Scheduler) to let him know that this problem still exists ....

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

First, have you changed any of PVR-Schedulers Default settings.

The only thing I have altered is Close Mediaportal before standby, and enabled the always option.

Have you altered the "auto standby" or "user inactivity" settings.

It's like a Bus, nothing for ages then 2 at once.

 

[Teebor]

LOL, I'm in no hurry for an answer so any answer is good.

It seems to have recorded some programs the other night and I set it to record some random stuff last night so I will have to see if it recorded ok later.

I changed a lot of settings in the software and I did change the close mediaportal options as well.

So its not PVR that is causing the shutdown its windows??

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Not for me it's not.

Did have a issue where it resumed straight after going into standby, and i also lost use of my ehome receiver.

Turned out to be Nero imagedrive i had enabled the previous day to install some software.

ps am running 1.5.5 and MP svn from 20-2-2006

 

[Taipan]

So its not PVR that is causing the shutdown its windows??

Correct - here is the thread over at the PVR Scheduler forums where I logged the original problem - if you scoll down (to here) you will find a couple of URLs that STSC included that provide a clue to the cause ...

 

[Teebor]

Hmm, thats quite interesting.

I am going to check those settings mentioned in the first link but my net connection is provided by a USB dongle. I have enabled the machine to keep power to the USB so I can use my remote or mouse to wake the machine up from standby so its weird.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Teebor

Just for your info, i connect to internet wirelessly (internal PCI, more reliable) and have onboard LAN turned off in the BIOS.