Standby confirmation if recording in progress

[rob11252]

Rightly or wrongly, I don't care about this password being in the open. The bat file would reside on the HTPC computer, which is in the home network, behind a router, currently with one user and no password, and the computer doesn't have any sensitive files on it, designed for unrestricted use by any member of the family.

Talking about coding....

that's the easy part & i doubt sub would have a problem to code that. hell, i could do that too ..........

Could you guys check this thread? :
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=35079

Mr. Slimm tried to, unsuccesfully, add the standby feature to his program. Maybe you can chip in.
His solution would be way more elegant that what I can come up with here!

Appreciate.

[K.S.]

Could you guys check this thread? :
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=35079

Mr. Slimm tried to, unsuccesfully, add the standby feature to his program. Maybe you can chip in.
His solution would be way more elegant that what I can come up with here!

if it's about SlimmGBPVR... only Mister Slimm can add the code to that, i've posted in that thread.
otherwise, a simple autoit3 script could to the job...

the following call would set ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED (by resetting the system idle timer & preventing automatic standby)
DllCall ("kernel32.dll","long","SetThreadExecutionState","long",0x00000001)
the following call should set it back to ES_CONTINUOUS
DllCall ("kernel32.dll","long","SetThreadExecutionState","long",0x80000000)

one remark about that from microsoft: "The SetThreadExecutionState function cannot be used to prevent the user from putting the computer to sleep. Applications should respect that the user expects a certain behavior when they close the lid on their laptop or press the power button."
i'm not sure how calling standby from the system menu is regarded as. it might be regarded as user interaction & not prevent it!

[rob11252]

OKey, this needs clarification:

1. THIS ONE IS NOT THE ISSUE!

I've never had the problem of computer going to sleep during recording or watching recordings because of timer issue. Sub has taken care of that by implementing SetThreadExecutionState function in the recording service and pvrx2.

2. USER INPUT - THIS IS THE ISSUE!

A smart and mean computer, when presented with a dumb standby request from me, would turn up the volume and yell and flash the following message:


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Or, if Mr. Slimm can figure his bit, the computer would turn his little flashing icon on and say: OK, I am going to sleep as soon as I finish this recording. Goodnight.

The function for this, as Microsoft claims, is PBT_APMQUERYSUSPEND.
Unfortunately, as Mr. Slimm and K.S. found out, nobody here could get it to work.


Oh, well, back to my little project.

[rob11252]

:mad:

In parallelprocessing.bat I put just one command:

runasuser [user] [password] wakeup.exe

Start recording, check if wakeup.exe is running. NO!? WTF?
Doubleclick on bat file, it starts wakeup.exe.

So I add another command to make sure the bat is running:
dir *.ini>rec.txt

I doubleclick on bat, it runs both commands,;
I run bat from command window, it runs both commands and then displays a message: file not found. I have no idea what file it was looking for, but since it performed both commands, I ignore this.
I start recording again, the bat skips runasuser command, but creates the rec.txt file! Why oh why oh why?

It must be sub's fault

[psicotron3]

You could try to add the full path to both commands, like

"C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\runasuser.exe" [user] [password] "C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\wakeup.exe"


I think you´ll also have to add something like pskill wakeup.exe to PostProcessing.bat

:mad:

In parallelprocessing.bat I put just one command:

runasuser [user] [password] wakeup.exe

Start recording, check if wakeup.exe is running. NO!? WTF?
Doubleclick on bat file, it starts wakeup.exe.

So I add another command to make sure the bat is running:
dir *.ini>rec.txt

I doubleclick on bat, it runs both commands,;
I run bat from command window, it runs both commands and then displays a message: file not found. I have no idea what file it was looking for, but since it performed both commands, I ignore this.
I start recording again, the bat skips runasuser command, but creates the rec.txt file! Why oh why oh why?

It must be sub's fault

[K.S.]

2. USER INPUT - THIS IS THE ISSUE!

A smart and mean computer, when presented with a dumb standby request from me, would turn up the volume and yell and flash the following message:
...
The function for this, as Microsoft claims, is PBT_APMQUERYSUSPEND.
Unfortunately, as Mr. Slimm and K.S. found out, nobody here could get it to work.

i'll take a look at that if your vb example does not help MisterSlimm, but dunno when i find the time to delv into that

[rob11252]

I am happy to report that the latest version of SlimmGBPVR has, among other very usefull features, the function which prevents the user from accidental standby, hibernation or shutdown during recording in progress.
Check it out yourself!

[imilne]

Its unlikely I'd bother implementing something like this directly in GB-PVR. At most you'd probably get a warning if you try to use the sleep function from the GB-PVR system screen while recording.

Sub, what you've mentioned would be enough for my family, as GB-PVR is the only interface they get to see, so the PC can only be put into standby or hibernate via GB-PVR's menus.

Here's hoping you've time to add it at some point...