Anyone use sleep/wake

[rob11252]

I use MCE Remote with HIP. The remote has two buttons on the top. The TV button turns TV set on and off and the PC button acts as a on/off switch for PC (I am using standby S3). Works great, never had any problems. I've also installed SlimmGBPVR, so if I press PC button by accident, it will delay standby after recording has finished.
It takes 10s to wake up and uses 7W in sleep mode. I figured I will save enough money on electricity in a year to buy another hard drive or tuner card.

[McBainUK]

uses 7W in sleep mode.

How do you know this? Did you measure somehow or based on PC specs?

I've set my GB-PVR PC to goto sleep after 15mins of in-activity and it's great - less heat and only the 1 (silent) fan! Next job is to get wake on usb r/c and wake on LAN over the internet working. Project for the weekend

[K.S.]

How do you know this? Did you measure somehow or based on PC specs?

I've set my GB-PVR PC to goto sleep after 15mins of in-activity and it's great - less heat and only the 1 (silent) fan! Next job is to get wake on usb r/c and wake on LAN over the internet working. Project for the weekend

i measured 7W in standby, you can't rely on specs, depends on PSU & mobo combination, some people still had ~21W on S3 :eek: cause of a crappy PSU
beware: if you still have a fan spinning (PSU?), i guess you ain't got S3 (check your BIOS PM options), you're most likely in S1. with S3, you have nothing spinning, only RAM is fed by the standby power of the PSU, so dead silence

[McBainUK]

OK, thanks. Look like a trip to the BIOS is in order

[HtV]

OK, thanks. Look like a trip to the BIOS is in order

I had the same problem, I couldn't fix that so I had to choose hibernate in stead of standby. Maybe you have more luck with your motherboard.

Hans

[daveid]

I have my setup like this:
Freebsd (firewall/router) services to the outside world.
Putty on my cell phone to connect in to the bsd box, from there I can send WOL packets to my two PCs, OR telnet in to either PC to initiate a shutdown command.
RSS feeds on my cell phone to monitor (in case I forget) the upcoming recordings (I also use it to schedule sometimes - but usually do that in the mornings from my pc), so I know when I can turn off the PC(s).
I use the WOL to turn the primary PC on when we are on our way home, so it is all ready to go when we get here, just turn the tv & receiver on.
I do not know how much power this is saving, but it has to be some. Our energy costs recently increased around three-fold, and just using the AC is killing my wallet (but we face south with lots of windows so it get's like an oven during the day).

[Satori]

I set up my pc to standby because it is in the living room, otherwise the video card is a little noisy (going to quiet it a little with Rivatuner, but haven't had the time yet)

I set it up according to this article:
http://www.exoid.com/?page_id=47

Haven't been able to test it very much but so far so good.

[dark_half]

I have upgraded both server and client to Vista Home and both appear to be much more reliably in going to sleep and waking than with XP. I was using some modified versions of files posted by K.S. but since moving to Vista i am trying something new. I have 2 power profiles on the server. One that allows standby and on that doesn't. I have a batch files that runs when the client resumes that sends a WOL command and then runs a batch files on the server to set the profile on the server to prevent going to sleep. Then when the client goes to sleep it runs a batch that sets the profile back so that server can go to sleep. I use HibernateTrigger.exe to fire these files off on the client.

client_resume

Code:

@echo off
mc-wol.exe [I]server mac[/I]
sleep 20
psexec \\htpc -d -u Username -p Password "C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\standby\PreventSleep.bat"
exit

client_sleep

Code:

@echo off
psexec \\htpc -d -u Username -p Password "C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\standby\AllowSleep.bat"
exit

PreventSleep.bat

Code:

@echo off
powercfg -s 2a181c31-b4c9-4756-a2b6-c2543e53bf57
exit

rem Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
rem -----------------------------------
rem Power Scheme GUID: 2a181c31-b4c9-4756-a2b6-c2543e53bf57  (PreventSleep)
rem Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced)
rem Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c  (High performance)
rem Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a  (Power saver)
rem Power Scheme GUID: bcdaa747-92d8-49ae-b112-11eed1eaf961  (AllowSleep) *

AllowSleep.bat

Code:

@echo off
powercfg -s bcdaa747-92d8-49ae-b112-11eed1eaf961
exit

[rob11252]

How do you know this? Did you measure somehow or based on PC specs?

I've set my GB-PVR PC to goto sleep after 15mins of in-activity and it's great - less heat and only the 1 (silent) fan! Next job is to get wake on usb r/c and wake on LAN over the internet working. Project for the weekend

I bought P3 Kill A Watt Electricity Load Meter and Monitor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6882715001 and now I am running around the house checking any appliance which is plugged in.

I found out my computer uses 5W when in power off or hibernate, 7W when standby, and 90-120W when used.

I am using standby because when in standby I have power on USB ports so I can wake it up from remote. My mb Gigabyte P35-DS3L DOES NOT have Wake-on-USB-event feature.

[dvasco]

I set up my pc to standby because it is in the living room, otherwise the video card is a little noisy (going to quiet it a little with Rivatuner, but haven't had the time yet)

I set it up according to this article:
http://www.exoid.com/?page_id=47

Haven't been able to test it very much but so far so good.

Thanks for the link. I have needed an instructional like that for a long time.