Recordingservice keeps sytem awake.

[fla]

The recording service seems to be behaving strangely.

It won't wake up the machine for an EPG update. Set the EPG time to 4PM then hibernated from gbpvr's system menu. Waited until 4:35PM and finally powered up manually. The recording service then proceeded to the epg update right away. Logs attached.

If I schedule a task of my own with windows "Scheduled Tasks" the machine wakes up fine. If I schedule a recording, the recording service wakes the machine up fine to perform the recording. It just won't wake it up for an EPG update. It also keeps the machine from hibernating once awake as previously discussed.

If I go into the guide and schedule a recording, sometimes I need to exit gbpvr and restart it to get the main screen to say "recording soon xyz..." otherwise it keeps saying "None". I've never had a single problem with the recording service in over a year, but since 0.99.12 it's behaving very strangely.

Anyone else with the hibernate problem also have epg wakeup problems?

Forgot one thing: The morning after I installed 0.99.12 the system suddenly woke up at 10:00AM for no reason. No recording was pending and the epg update should be at night. I just ignored it at the time but it may be another bizarre behavior of the recording service in 0.99.12.

Would a "repair installation" be a good idea? I don't even know what that does so I'm afraid it might make things worse.

[Pilot]

This has been happening to me for quite a few versions now, maybe even from the start of my GBPVR use (v.092.11 or something similar). When I have the PC sleeping, it will wake up to record, but it will never go back to sleep. I never tried the 1 minute setting, but I tried about 1/2 dozen other durations and it never went back to sleep.

For what it's worth, I've never had automatic conversions, web admin, or anything outside of vanilla enabled. I was dinking around with comskip not too long ago, but gave up because it was bogging down the PC too much since I had three rather active tuners.

[HtV]

Ok here we go again.
I've done a lot of testing, EWA off + plugins off and finally it seemed to work . Then I turned on (one by one) everything and it kept going to sleep after 5 mins every time. So I went to bed a happy man.
This morning all was back to "normal" (=not functioning):mad:
So I put back a disk-image I had from ~1 month ago. Everything ok.
Did all the windows updates, still everything ok.
Finally upgraded gbpvr 99.05 > 99.12. Nomore going to sleep.
So I went back to 99.05 and everything is fine again. I think I'll leave it at this for now. I'll wait and see if something comes up. I'm not even sure it's a gbpvr thing. Might as well be another appl. causing the total cpu% to be too high. I give up for now. Probably try again tomorrow, the wife will be working so I'm "home alone"
I really hope someone comes up with a brilliant idea.

cya Hans

[sub]

I have been looking into it, but no answer for you yet.

[HtV]

Ok thanks. I kind of hope more people with this problem will turn up, (I
know there were some a few days ago). It might make it easier to find a clue. If it were only me with this problem it would probably my system causing it.

[frankmcg]

If it helps I'm getting this problem too after upgrading to 99.12 - no problems with any of the previous versions.

Spent a bit of time playing about with it this evening but all I've managed to figure out is that shutting down the recording service does the trick, but obviously isn't v helpful in terms of usage!

There seems to be quite a bit of disk activity going on when the machine should be idle which I didn't see before, maybe every 20 secs or so?

[PhilTheDoc]

I have been playing around with this problem. The GB-PVR Recording Service appears to be the culprit - I've had the machine on for hurs untouched, set to hibernate after 5 mins and it's refused to do so (1 min and it works) - until I stop the recording service. I've uninstalled 99.12 and gone back to 99.5 and all's well - hibernates properly. Nothing el my system has changed.

I'll stick with 99.5 until this is fixed.

[longhorngeek]

Hibernate stopped working after I installed 99.12. I have also reverted to 99.5 which has solved the problem.

[sub]

Can one of your guys that have this problem try running filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com to see if anything is regularly being accessed?

[newyankee]

Same here. No hibernate since 99.12.

I have set the hibernate time to 5 minutes (previously 30 minutes).

I have logged with filemon for about 5 minutes, log attached. Maybe someone can log with 99.5 to see if there are differences?

Thanks
G