Lights-Out for Windows Home Server 2011

[pvrip]

Hi,

at the moment I am using Argus TV since 1 year. Now I am testing NPVR as backend on Windows Home Server 2011 for its streaming and other great capabilities.

Everthing is running fine after setup, but my Lights-Out installation for Windows Home Server 2011 go into standby during recording.

For Argus TV there is a plugin, which is filling the calendar with time frames for wake up the server and preventing the standby during scheduled recordings.

As I know there is no plugin for NPVR. Lights-Out can also monitor files and processes to prevent the standby. Does NPVR maybe create a process or a file during recording?

Thx
JJ

[Reddwarf]

Npvr should prevent going into sleep or standby during recording, but I have seen people having issues with the server version of windows. Have you had a look at windows event log during the time this occured?

[pvrip]

Thx for your answer.

As I know "Lights-Out" is doing the standby stuff, not Windows itself.
So I have to use the capabilities of "Lights-Out", which are:

- Calendar entry (date, day, time)

or

[ATTACH=CONFIG]36003[/ATTACH]

JJ

[Reddwarf]

You could have a look at NScriptHelper.

[johnsonx42]

can you just have it monitor the recording path, so that if any files are being written to it or any subdirectory it will stay awake? or does it have to monitor a specific single file or single folder?

also, NRecord calls "parallelprocessing.bat" when a recording starts, and a "postprocessing.bat" when a recording finishes. perhaps there are commands you could put in those to instruct lights-out that a recording is in progress.

[martint123]

NPVR sends keep awake calls when it is recording, playing back and generally when the user is "doing stuff".
You may have to ask for help from the "lights out" software author if it is ignoring these requests.

[Madlec]

I know this is an old thread, but I have been experimenting with my Windows Server Essentials 2016 with Lights-Out 3 to stop Lights-Out from putting the server to sleep during a recording. Setting Lights-Out to monitor power requests from other software worked, but I also had random startups over night etc. In the end, I used NScriptHelper.dll and created a ParrallelProcessing.bat file. Then told Lights-Out to monitor the file. The code is below, hope it helps anyone using Lights-Out.

echo off
cd C:"\Program Files\NextPVR"
set NSHelper=dotnet NScriptHelper.dll -isinuse
:check
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('%NSHelper% -isinuse') do SET condition=%%i
echo %condition%
IF %condition% =="NOT RECORDING" goto stop
:delay
IF not exist "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\recording.txt" echo %condition% >> "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\recording.txt"
timeout 60
goto check
:stop
del "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\recording.txt"