Shutdown from remote - unexpected behaviour (1 Viewer)

[_Rich_]

Hi all,

Newbie to all this, so apologies if what I'm expecting is daft! Running Win7 64-bit.

WMC - if I press the power button on my MCE remote, it'll go into standby. If I'm watching TV, it'll stop playback and go into suspend. If something is recording, it'll stop playback(assuming the user was watching something), turn off the display, and - I presume - enter away mode, keeping the PC up for the recording, after which it'll suspend. This is good, as the females in the household can just hit power when they've finished watching TV.

With Mediaportal, the PC seems to suspend no matter what. It'll stop recording, which is a nuisance. I tried setting it up to never suspend from the power button, and encouraged SWMBO to press stop and let the system control suspend by itself, but the stop button requires a double-press and nobody thinks to do this.

Can I remap the power button to stop playback and blank the screen, then just allow the system to control power saving based on being idle? Or is there a really simple option I've missed?

Thanks!

 

[Vasilich]

please post logs as described here http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/16_Support/3_Forums/2_Log_Files
because it is standard feature of mediaportal to not sleep when recording (afaik you cannot send PC to sleep while TVServer records anythoing even if you want to %) )

 

[_Rich_]

Will do a clean install later and grab them.

Thanks!

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Try the Powerscheduler++ plugin, this will then do the same as WMC when hitting the power button.

 

[_Rich_]

Logs. Not tried PowerScheduler++ yet today - recollection is it behaved the same way when I tried it a couple of weeks back.

Thanks!

 

[_Rich_]

Second set of logs. This was scheduled in the EPG, I hit the power button on the remote after a minute or two(whilst watching another channel)..

Thanks!

 

[Vasilich]

really strange - there is no any "PowerScheduler" entry in tv.log. Like you haven't activated powerscheduler in tvserver at all.
Are you sure you activated and configured server part (in TVServer config tool) of powerscheduler plugin http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...rver_Configuration/13_Plugins/Power_Scheduler ? it is even more importrant that client side

 

[_Rich_]

On the TVServer, 100%. On the client, I'm not so sure. Will double check later. If the client side isn't enabled, should the server side still work correctly?

Thanks!

 

[_Rich_]

Hello, and thank-you for your help. This is now resolved.

Whilst I'd always configured the PowerScheduler plugin for the TV server, I hadn't done-so for the client. As a single-seat installation, I presumed that configuring it for the backend would be sufficient. But this appears untrue - the client PowerScheduler plugin also needs activating, and works without any configuration.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!