SlimmGBPVR doesn't prevent standby during recording

[stustunz]

have to try this the mrs hit the power button on the remote just last week and i had 4 recordings happening oops

[Niz]

Off topic now I know, but I'm looking for a USB remote that I can use that will wake the HTPC up from standby. I bought a Digitech one the other day which works OK, but does not do the wakeup . Other USB devices (keyboard/mouse) wake the machine up just fine, so I don't think I have a BIOS setting issue or anything like that (I've checked them too). My PC is in a different room from the TV, so it's a pain to have to get off my a*se to switch it on. Happen to know of a remote control brand that does do the wakeup from standby OK?

[Mister Slimm]

Umm, I'm not sure that it matters. I'm no expert on the recording service, but I assume that parallelprocessing.bat is run once when the first recording is started, and postprocessing.bat is run once when the last recording has finished. If there are overlapping recordings on different devices, I assume that posprocessing.bat is only called once the last device has finished recording.
Someone with knowledge of how and when the .bat files are run might be able to help.
For me, I have just the one device, so this isn't a problem.

As I understand it, the batch files are run for each individual recording as and when they start and finish. For example, two overlapping recordings would both call postprocessing.bat when they finish. This would delete the flag file when the first recording finishes.

[stustunz]

microsoft remote brings mine out of standby
i think it depends of the motherboard and depends on the standby mode you use aswell

[Niz]

As I understand it, the batch files are run for each individual recording as and when they start and finish. For example, two overlapping recordings would both call postprocessing.bat when they finish. This would delete the flag file when the first recording finishes.

Hmm, with multiple cards then, i would say that there is an issue then. Maybe the batch files can be modified so that some kind of counter is maintained. The counter could be incremented for each run of paralleprocessing.bat, and decremented with each run of postprocessing.bat. When the counter first goes from zero to one, the file the exe file looks for could be created, and when the counter is decremented back to zero, the file could be deleted again.
So, the actual executable wouldn't need any modifications, and some clever clogs could modify the batch files to do the job described above.

[Mister Slimm]

On my system it only stops standby and hibernate, the log off, restart and shutdown are working the same as always.

Maybe it´s some of the windows reg tricks that I used some time ago to make it shutdown faster, or maybe it´s because my windows is brazilian portuguese language.

The logs don´t show anything usefull, it´s like Windows did the shutdown without warning.

I believe I've fixed this now. I released a new version which is also 1.2.13 compatible on this thread.

[b00sfuk]

Am I missing something simple with this? I recently built a new Vista32 HTPC (UAC off) and SlimmGBPVR does not stop standby by default while recording. Whether I try to enter standby via the PVRX2 menu, remote button or Vista start menu it goes straight into standby mode. The SlimmGBPVR tray icon is running (tied default settings) at the time and using latest 1.2.13 GBPVR.

I've attached the debug level log but there does not seem to be much in there, standby happened at 10:54:18.448.

Thanks

[Mister Slimm]

Am I missing something simple with this? I recently built a new Vista32 HTPC (UAC off) and SlimmGBPVR does not stop standby by default while recording. Whether I try to enter standby via the PVRX2 menu, remote button or Vista start menu it goes straight into standby mode. The SlimmGBPVR tray icon is running (tied default settings) at the time and using latest 1.2.13 GBPVR.

I've attached the debug level log but there does not seem to be much in there, standby happened at 10:54:18.448.

Thanks

Insert rude word here. I thought I'd fixed this but I've clearly busted it again. By the way, I think PVRX2 actually stops your recordings when you shutdown from there and so Slimm GBPVR doesn't prevent that. However, it did (I swear!) catch any other system shutdown event.

[Mister Slimm]

Looking at this page on MSDN, it appears that you cannot stop sleep mode on Vista:

Prior to Windows Vista, an application could veto a sleep transition by responding to the PBT_APMQUERYSUSPEND power broadcast. Now, applications cannot veto sleep transitions, although system administrators can allow applications to veto sleep transitions by using Group Policy.)

[b00sfuk]

Thanks for looking at this so quickly. So do I read it that by default it won't go into standby but if you have business/ultimate vista then you can use group policy editor to allow it to work? (If so I would hope there is a equivalent registry entry for home premium).