Scheduled recording wake up time configurable?

[kendrak24]

Is it possible to configure when the computer should wake up before a scheduled recording?
E.g. number of minutes?

[sub]

No not currently. It always asks the PC to wake up 90 seconds before the pre-padding is due to start recording.

[kendrak24]

OK, thanks for the info. My card reader re-initializes ~60-90 seconds after wakeup (unsure if that's configurable),
so I just want to make sure it's up and running before a recording starts. 90 seconds may be cutting it a bit close.

[johnsonx42]

sub -

did you catch the support thread a week or two ago where a user had a problem with the EPG udpate wake-up? his log showed that NRecord was scheduling the wakeup at exactly the time as the EPG update, rather than 90 seconds early, and thus the EPG update was running before the system and particularly the networking stack was fully awake, indeed even before NRecord logged the wakeup event. His overnight EPG update failed every night because of that.

I tried to call your attention to it then, but I'm pretty sure you were still away from home at the time. Might be worth putting in a fix for that before the next release.

edit: I remembered the title of the thread, and it was easy to find: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...works-fine

[sub]

OK, thanks for the info. My card reader re-initializes ~60-90 seconds after wakeup (unsure if that's configurable),
so I just want to make sure it's up and running before a recording starts. 90 seconds may be cutting it a bit close.

I've made it possible to tweak this 90 second period in the next release, via a new <WakeupPreRecordingSeconds> setting in config.xml.

[sub]

sub -

did you catch the support thread a week or two ago where a user had a problem with the EPG udpate wake-up? his log showed that NRecord was scheduling the wakeup at exactly the time as the EPG update, rather than 90 seconds early, and thus the EPG update was running before the system and particularly the networking stack was fully awake, indeed even before NRecord logged the wakeup event. His overnight EPG update failed every night because of that.

I tried to call your attention to it then, but I'm pretty sure you were still away from home at the time. Might be worth putting in a fix for that before the next release.

edit: I remembered the title of the thread, and it was easy to find: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...works-fine

In the next release the EPG wake up will also honor that setting I mentioned above.

[ElihuRozen]

Isn't there a wakeup.bat or resume.bat that gets executed when the machines resumes? Couldn't you put a delay in that for now until sub releases the new version? I know when I added a loop to ping the EPG server up to 20 times until I got a response in my UpdateEPG.bat, it solved a problem I was having on EPG updates frequently not working.

[sub]

You can put a delay in UpdateEPG.bat, which the application executes prior to beginning the EPG update.

[kendrak24]

I've made it possible to tweak this 90 second period in the next release, via a new <WakeupPreRecordingSeconds> setting in config.xml.

Awesome! Looking forward to the next release then...

[johnsonx42]

You can put a delay in UpdateEPG.bat, which the application executes prior to beginning the EPG update.

It didn't occur to me to suggest this to the user who was having the problem as he was using Schedules Direct and therefore didn't have an UpdateEPG.bat... but of course NRecord still calls it if it's there, so if I'd been thinking clearly I'd have suggested that as the fix.