Recommended way to suspend when idle (1 Viewer)

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I'm trying to set up my machine to suspend after 30 minutes without activity, but am having problems....

I run both Mediaportal and Squeezeplay (Squeezeplay is my main app for music). I also use MCE Standby tool, and have the MP Power Scheduler plug-in. My problem is that, if I use either MCE Standby Tool or PowerScheduler to suspend after a specified idle period, I often get the machine suspending when I'm either listening to music (Squeezeplay) or watching TV recordings (Mediaportal TV app).

Can anyone recommend a way to achieve "suspend on idle" which would not suspend if there was any sort of media playback going on at the time?

 

[jmuellers]

Isn't there an exclusive list of processes you can chose in power scheduler, so standby is prevented when one of this processes is running?
I recommend you add the Squeezeplay exe.

 

[ryan20021982]

Have you tried just setting windows to sleep after a specific time?

I only use that and leave mp running and it works great.