I have an interesting problem. I have a USB UIRT and a Harmony One. I have the Harmony One configured as an MCE remote and use the USB UIRT receive module in MePo. This works pretty well for the most part. My problem is that I wish to use the remote to send the HTPC into S3 standby. Unlike most people, I have no problems waking the HTPC from S3, I've loaded the relevant wake codes using lrnhelper and have tested wake-up by configuring the power button to send the HTPC to S3 standby, hitting the power button and then using the remote to wake it up again. All this works well. I can't, however, find a way of using the remote to send the HTPC into standby. There's no standby command listed in the IR config learn codes for the USB UIRT. I could use the 'Shutdown' command but this presents me with a menu, and I need to go straight to standby. I don't want to use power scheduler, I don't run the TV module and hence don't Need any of the functionality that provides such as waking for scheduled recordings etc. I've edited the learn codes XML before now to add in codes, so if there's something I can add in there that's just not in the config menus I'm happy doing that...any help would be much appreciated!
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Thanks. I came to a similar conclusion myself last night and gave Girder a try. It sort of worked but it seems that it wasn't reliably putting the console into standby (sometimes required 2 pushes of the standby or wake button on the remote). Also seemed to take an inordinately long time to wake from standby sometimes, which seems strange given it's a relatively well specced machine with ample RAM and an SSD.
I was trying to set this up because I have a strange issue with the HD4600 gfx on my Haswell board. When I change inputs on the TV and then switch back to MePo, I get white noise on the screen. This is generally only soluble by switching the TV off and on again (don't have to reboot the PC). I'm guessing this is some sort of HDCP auth issue. I was hoping that switching the machine into standby when I switch away from MePo would prevent this from happening but it's just not reliable enough. I think I'm going to resort to using power-scheduler just to save power when the machine is idle. I'll try to find another route to fixing the gfx issue.
I was trying to set this up because I have a strange issue with the HD4600 gfx on my Haswell board. When I change inputs on the TV and then switch back to MePo, I get white noise on the screen. This is generally only soluble by switching the TV off and on again (don't have to reboot the PC). I'm guessing this is some sort of HDCP auth issue. I was hoping that switching the machine into standby when I switch away from MePo would prevent this from happening but it's just not reliable enough. I think I'm going to resort to using power-scheduler just to save power when the machine is idle. I'll try to find another route to fixing the gfx issue.
use IRSS and link the windows sleep command to one of the buttons on your remote.
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/tools/ir-server-suite-irss
https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/tools/ir-server-suite-irss
