Standby mode - can it go back to sleep after recording?

[DronnyBoyd]

Just to close off this thread, thanks to everyone for their suggestions, and I am now able to put my htpc into Hibernate, and it wakes up to record, and after 10mins idle it goes back into hibernate.

Wonderful stuff, exactly what I wanted, not even any need to manually switch it off at night now! I just need to remember to tell the rest of the family to switch it *on* if they want to use it and its just sitting there, lights out

As always, the GB-PVR community is one of the best I've come across, always helpful, polite and fun! And a big thanks to Sub, another excellent release, looking forward to the next version now!

[gEd]

glad you got it sorted out !

So as to help any others who experince this problem and stumble across this thread, what did you do that fixed the problem, was it the driver upgrade?

[DronnyBoyd]

Ha, well, actually, its not quite working as planned....

I'm not able to convince the PC to switch itself into Hibernate, after all, I'm confused why I thought it had, but it hadn't. I haven't updated the video drivers yet, I'll try that this week, but I've had a few problems like not waking itself up to do the EPG update either.

I'll try and get to the bottom of it over the week, and report back for the benefit of anyone else suffering the same issues.

[DronnyBoyd]

Ha, well, actually, its not quite working as planned....

I'm not able to convince the PC to switch itself into Hibernate, after all, I'm confused why I thought it had, but it hadn't. I haven't updated the video drivers yet, I'll try that this week, but I've had a few problems like not waking itself up to do the EPG update either.

I'll try and get to the bottom of it over the week, and report back for the benefit of anyone else suffering the same issues.

If anyone's still reading this thread, it now works. Something must have been stopping the PC going into hibernation, but a reboot seems to have fixed that. It now hibernates after 10 mins idle, and GB-PVR wakes it up to record and to transcode and to download the EPG (using the built-in Bleb/UK plugin).

YAY!!

[ricklous]

If ive remoted into the PVR then from then on it wont hibernate till a restart...

Mostly works the rest of the time though.

Well done for sorting it:->

[stefan]

If ive remoted into the PVR then from then on it wont hibernate till a restart...

And sometimes I have it the other way around... it won't hibernate until I remote into the PVR and disconnect again... =) World of computers is wonderful.

For the past couple of months my PVR has not wanted to hibernate automatically at all, no matter what I did. This friday it started hibernating again The only thing I can think of that I have done is to schedule reoccuring recordings again (I haven't done that since I moved...) Could that *ever* have anything to do with it? I don't really want to believe that...

[herbs]

I use winoff or hibernator for the power management issues as my pc's decided to stop hibernating on idle. Both are good free programs, hibernator will run a program/batch script on wake up if you want. I found the wake.cmd on gbpvr didn't work for me too well.

[stefan]

Hmm... yeah, I know I could (and maybe I will) some program like that, but I'm too much of a nerd to not wanna figure out the real reason why it's not working as it is. You shouldn't need a sledge like hibernator to put the computer to sleep...

[stefan]

Herbernator, huh? ah... now you've gone and edited it... it was more funny the way you had it before

[gEd]

"Herbernator" doesn't make your computer go to sleep, it just mellow's it out ...