Where do i download PowerScheduler Plugin?! (1 Viewer)

[Aquarius]

Hi,
a possible way to overcome this, is the Watchdog plugin. Search the forum for 'Watchdog'.

You can tell the watchdog to look for running processes like Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Firefox , ... and as long as one of them is running, it won't hibernate.

If you don't deal with such applications or want the machine just to stay where it is, you may create a dummy script that blocks somehow and add this to the watchdog. When you're finished with your work, kill the script and PS will hibernate the machine after some minutes.

In my case, I'll 'rexec' some script from an external machine to make maintenance at the MP machine without shutting down MP.

HTH
/Gerd

 

[Pom]

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.4
Windows Version: XP Prof. SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP 2800+
HDD: Maxtor 200GB
Memory: 1GB DDR
Motherboard: Asus A7V8X
Motherboard Chipset: VIA 4in1
Motherboard Bios: Latest (..1014?)
Video Card: ATI Sapphire Radeon 9550 256MB
Video Card Driver: 8.273.0.0
Sound Card: Onboard Advance AC'97
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE
1. TV Card Type: Hardware
1. TV Card Driver: 2.0.43.24103
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: DScaler
MPEG2 Audio Codec: DScaler
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Telewest
HTPC Case: ATX
Cooling:
Power Supply: 500W
Remote: Hauppage MCE version
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection: VGA (15 D-Sub)

Guys, have installed the Watchdog plugin and it seems to work well in preventing MP from hibernating when i'm doing other things on the PC (with MP in Home screen of course), however one slight flaw is that if the sleep timer has expired and then the process preventing hibernation is ended, the PC immediately hibernates - very annoying!

Is there a way around this or should i just give it up and hope that a newer version of the Powerscheduler plugin monitors CPU usage?

To be honest none of this would be a problem to me if i was able to minimise My TV to the tray (TV just stays put), don't suppose anyone has come across this problem and has a solution....?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

in MP home press alt + enter, open TV/radio whatever you like to stop powerscheduler kicking in, and minimise to systray.