What is most popular "standby mode" used by MP users... (2 Viewers)

[davej00]

Ideally it would be good to see a survey on this.

Ive been fiddling with standby modes with MP -- and I wanted to see what was the most popular. Do folk generally just leave their HTPC running 24x7 ? or is S3 [standby] the most popular ? s4 [hibernate] ? or even switched off completely and then powered on by some 3rd party software [or even a person ;-)] when the record time comes around ?

What does yours do ?

Thanks

- Dave

BTW 0.2.0.4 is rock solid !! Well done devs/community !

 

[trojkolka]

24x7 running with monitor off

 

[James]

I use S3 here. With the remote on/off bringing it in and out of standby. Not much power difference between S3 and S4.

 

[dale_mac]

I use S4 hibernate.
I'd rather have the startup information on the hard drive than in RAM in case of power outages.
I just press the button to start it manually when I want to fire it up and powerscheduler switches it off after 10 minutes of inactivity on the home screen.

 

[CHli]

S3 here, quicker to bring up and I've got an APC to prevent short power outage (15 min max)
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[zombiepig]

hibernate - was having problems recording after resuming from s3. i've grown to like hibernate anyway, since we get a lot of powerouts here and if my box is hibernating it's not affected in any way!

 

[Taipan]

I use S3 and I have a UPS just in case there is a power failure. Since S3 uses less than 10W, then the UPS will cover a power outage of several hours. I have found that S3 is a little quicker than S4 to shutdown and resume.

 

[kerpow]

24x7 running with monitor off (when we are not watching )

 

[wewe]

- S3
- go in and out with the remote or PC case knob
- all peripherals (TV, 5.1 booster, STB, ...) switched on and off with master/slave power supply

Works nearly (*) perfect

thanks+regards
WeWe
(*) I have to kill and restart MP because it doesn't properly restart

 

[Nefius]

S3 all the way baby