Wake to record?

[Obsidian]

Hi, sorry to hijack this thread, but I'm experiencing similar problems to rlbond. I've set my machine to S3 standby, but no matter what I do I can't get GBPVR to wake to record. My scheduled tasks wake the machine from standby without a problem, it is only GBPVR which fails to wake it. I'm not using TV Listings, so the above fix is no good for me.

I searched for this problem, and found a lot of instances of it without solutions. Has anyone successfully solved it?

[Obsidian]

Hi again, apologies for a fairly blatant bump, but I would like to know if there is an acknowledgment of a problem here. A fair few people seem to have experienced this issue. If it is not an issue with GBPVR then surely someone must have solved it?

I'm getting quite desperate, as this is a really crucial issue for me. I really don't want my machine to be on full power 24/7.

[jmontana]

Hi again, apologies for a fairly blatant bump, but I would like to know if there is an acknowledgment of a problem here. A fair few people seem to have experienced this issue. If it is not an issue with GBPVR then surely someone must have solved it?

I'm getting quite desperate, as this is a really crucial issue for me. I really don't want my machine to be on full power 24/7.

My machine had a BIOS setting that was something like "Enable Low Power Mode". The gist was that if that was turned on, when in hibernation, the machine would never wake up to record. Once I turned that off, everything worked.

I'm still confused as to what it does exactly, since the way I understand it, in hibernate mode, the machine is completely turned off. How much more power saving can you do?

So maybe there's a setting like that in your BIOS?

[sub]

Hi again, apologies for a fairly blatant bump, but I would like to know if there is an acknowledgment of a problem here.

No there isnt. I'm not aware of any general problem with this functionality.

This functionality that asks machines to wake for recordings is very simple and hasnt changed in over three years. In that time there have a been a very small set of people that have had problems, but I've put that down to their machine/motherboard/bios not being fully ACPI compliant, or some such probelm. Most of those seem to come back and say they found the problem.

People can also confuse themselves testing by trying schedule recordings only a few minutes away, and hibernate/sleep too quickly.

[Obsidian]

Thanks sub. I think the reason I'm so frustrated is that my scheduled events wake the computer ok, it's only recordings that seem not to. That just doesn't make sense to me, but I'll keep trying.

@jmontana: Cheers for the response. I had a look for something similar in my bios, but I couldn't find anything. I'm beginning to think that I may have to flash my bios to sort this. I don't really want to do that though, it's always risky!

[jmontana]

@jmontana: Cheers for the response. I had a look for something similar in my bios, but I couldn't find anything. I'm beginning to think that I may have to flash my bios to sort this. I don't really want to do that though, it's always risky!

I hear that. I subscribe to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality when it comes to the BIOS.

Crazy idea, have you tried running as a different user?

[Obsidian]

Well, after reading sub's comment about setting up a test a few minutes in advance (something I had been guilty of since my first failed overnight test) I tried it again last night. And you know what, it worked! Something I've done since that first test must have fixed it, though I have no idea what.

I was wondering though, why is it that scheduling a recording a few minutes in advance and going into standby fails? Does this mean that if the machine goes into standby a couple of minutes before a recording is due to start then the recording will fail? Or is it to do with the time that the scheduling was done?

[martint123]

I was wondering though, why is it that scheduling a recording a few minutes in advance and going into standby fails? Does this mean that if the machine goes into standby a couple of minutes before a recording is due to start then the recording will fail? Or is it to do with the time that the scheduling was done?

How is it going into standby? When I was playing around, I found that manually putting it into standby was much different to letting power management drop into standby. I think Windows won't go into standby it it has a wakeup event in the queue within xx minutes.

Martin

[Obsidian]

My testing has generally involved manually putting it into standby, but now I'm trying to use "the hibernator", as I've heard that people have found that windows power management is a bit unreliable on that front. If what you say is true though perhaps I shouldn't dismiss it so quickly. Do you know whether windows considers the PC to be idle if the GBPVR frontend is running?

[jmontana]

How is it going into standby? When I was playing around, I found that manually putting it into standby was much different to letting power management drop into standby. I think Windows won't go into standby it it has a wakeup event in the queue within xx minutes.

Martin

In my experience, that is definitely true. For that reason, I never manually put my machine into standby anymore. Oddly, Windows seems to think that the machine should go into standby after 30 minutes* no matter what I have the power options set to. This works for me, so I just leave it alone.

* The exception is if there is prolonged network activity or something, then the machine will stay awake until that completes.