Wake, and stay that way

[capone]

I'm wondering if this would be just a tweak:

I'd like to have an option to have the system wake for EPG, but stay awake. I run it at 5am, and this way it would be on when my wife comes down at 6. I know I could get her to wake it up, but it's a WAF thing.

I've been playing w/ standby & hibernate, and only stand by seems to behave w/ standby. It will will wake from hibernate to EPG, but not record. It seems more reliable w/ standby (I want to see it in action a few times before I commit).

[sub]

Remember GB-PVR never puts a machine to sleep, so this is more of a windows problem, or the way you've configured standby and hibernate on your machine.

[capone]

This was not a complaint about wake function. I'm just wondering if there could be a way to not do the courtosey of going back to sleep after the EPG update, and use it like a system wake-up alarm.

As far as the system, there aren't many options...it's a newer emachine w/ XP Home (a model from this year), and the bios only offers S1, S3, or a combo. Not much room to config, so I'm just working w/ what I have. There's nothing you/GB can do about my HW, I know.

[sub]

There is no way for GB-PVR to control this, since its not the software thats requesting the machine go back to sleep.

[capone]

Oh...ok. For some reason I thought GB put the system back to sleep after the wake for update. Then it looks like it laready does what I need. Thx, I guess

[pwborders]

A suggestion. Set a windows scheduled task to wake the machine just before 6am for the wife. I use calc.exe. If you want it not to go back to sleep then you could make the task run dumppo.exe to change the sleep timeout to 0. Another task at a later time of the day could restore the correct sleep timeout.

Search for dumppo.exe here or on google for a download link. To change the sleep timeout you would use

dumppo ac idletimeot=600

Time is in seconds so that is 10 minutes. I am pretty sure 0 is no timeout.

Have fun.

Pete Borders

[capone]

Thx for the tip. I've found I can keep it awake...I'm now just trying to find a a way to wake the monitor stand by (blanking)...it's a different conrtol and not changable in the bios. I thought I had it fixed w/ a bat file, but maybe not.

[stefan]

You should be able to set all this in "Power management" in the control panel of windows... or am I misunderstanding something here? I think that setting power management in bios on a windows computer only gets the computer confused. Windows does things on its own even when bios settings are used. Unless I totally misunderstand you, my recommendation would be to not use bios power management at all, but only use windows' own power management.

[ydekmekji]

or task management

[capone]

There are no bios settings, other than choosing s1, s3, or s1&s3....normally you have a choice to select how to handle the monitor/display, too. In this case (emachine), it's a slim bios anyway.

When it wakes now, the system is on, but the display (tv) is still suspended until I move the mouse (usb). Not even the keyboard or vnc wakes it up.