LED status monitor

[betlit]

re! sorry, for the delay i'm kinda busy at the moment...

1.) The running service still consumes 14% of cpu capacity. Would it be significant less usage if the "live-tv and hit the recording-button on the remote"-thing would NOT light up the red LED?

uhm... strange... my tv-compy is an old piii 800 mhz (overclocked to ~900mhz)...
when the service is started it consumes about 30% of the cpu for about 2 or 3 seconds. after this it drops down to 0%... every time it checks the status the cpu usage goes up to max. 4%.
no difference if there are 2, 10 or 30 recordings scheduled...

2.) It seems the service recognizes the machine waking up from hibernate but not gbpvr frontend to be started by wake.cmd (which happens to be about 10 seconds later)

even more strange... all the service does is kind of 'give me a list off all running processes called GBPVR'. if the list is not empty the diode1-pin is set to high.
to be honest: i never tested the service behavior when comming back from hibernation (it _should_ not be different.. *g*). i will set up hibernation on a machine and test it.

3.) WITH THE NEW SERVICE RUNNING MY PC DOES NOT GO DOWN TO HIBERNATE ANY MORE!

hmm... i guess that checking the recordings generates disk activity (i believe i have read something like this in this forum).

in another post i found this:
What does your BIOS say its watching, in the Power Management section? try ignoring disk activity, etc. in turn.

i'm not sure if this is a good idea... i can imagine that the machine will go to hibernation while e.g. watching the same channel a long time (never pressing a button 'n stuff).

so it seems we really have to check out the tray icon of the gbpvrtray-app.... which is kind of... well... ugly.

[smeghead]

Rather than checking if GBPVR is recording something by using the database is it possible to check the device itself to determine if it is being used / recording. In this way all use of the device will be identified by the LED

Just a thought.............

[betlit]

sounds interessting. but... is it possible to determine if the
device is just used for live-tv or for a recording?

i'm using a pvr 350 hooked up via a s-video cable to a beamer... so i don't have live preview.. technically, i am allways recording when watching live-tv.

on another thought... the 'recording'-status-part sub has allready done in the gbpvrtray application... theoretically, it could be extened with the whole parallel-port-led-part...

in this case you could have a red led for every capture card in your system... this way you don't just see that gbpvr is recording... you would see _which_ of your capture cards are in use.

[smeghead]

So how does GBPVRTray work out what is recording on what card? As far as I can tell it's a stand alone .exe

[betlit]

jep it is. about 56kb *g*

i asked sub for a look at the source code of it.

[sub]

Sorry, I cant provide the source to it. It relies on knowlegde of the internal workings of many of the other DLLs, so its not as stand alone as you might think.

[smeghead]

OK sub I understand but is there anyway to access this information. Having an external indication (LED) to tell my Wife not to fiddle with the cable box as it's being recorded from would be really useful.

Would you consider adding this as a feature to GBPVRTray? - the ability to toggle parallel port outputs according to which recording source was being used.

[sub]

Its not something I want to integrate directly into the tray application, but I'll see if I can find a way for you to get notified of recordings in the next release.

[smeghead]

Cheers sub

[betlit]

this would be great.

thanks a lot

daniel