Hibernate question.

[Gordonx42]

I use a small program that puts my HTPC into hibernate when it has been idle for a few hours. (I do this because I found the XP idle timer doesn't usually work). My question is, will GBPVR prevent the system from going into hibernate mode if a recording is occuring?

[herbs]

I use a small program that puts my HTPC into hibernate when it has been idle for a few hours. (I do this because I found the XP idle timer doesn't usually work). My question is, will GBPVR prevent the system from going into hibernate mode if a recording is occuring?

I use hibernator or winOFF to do what you want although 10 mins not a few hours (two different pvrs just wanted to test both programmes) and a recording prevents hiberantion each time. Also viewing tv prevents hibernation.

[pz1]

I use hibernator or winOFF to do what you want although 10 mins not a few hours (two different pvrs just wanted to test both programmes) and a recording prevents hiberantion each time. Also viewing tv prevents hibernation.

I am interested to learn from your experiment with both programmes, as in my setup with XP defined time-out, or forced via GBPVR system menu, the machine does not properly resume from hibernation.

[dfdario]

I'm having the same problem and as far as I can see we both have the same mainboard!

If I set XP to hibernate, the first time PC hibernates after the time has been set while after the PC has been manually resumed from hibernation the time PC returns to hibernate state is as shorter as 5 min.

Furthermore sometime also NTFS errors happen.

If I hibernate the PC from the gbpvr system menu after resume hauppauge IR won't work.

This is all happen to me.
Now I'm trying to find a solution to all thees stupid problems.

[herbs]

I can't remember which one but one the apps I list can run a cmd after start up which you could use to restart the ir.exe for the hauppauge remote although I can say I have not had that issue myself. Also gbwake can do the same I believe.

[dfdario]

Thanks a lot for the tip. I planned to use wake.cmd to do that.
My big concern is to make the PC going hibernate at the right time and without NTFS errors.

[dfdario]

So far I've tested (and it pretty works) the appl shutter I've found at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~den4b/Projec...hutter.exe.
The program has a lot of interesting functions. The one I was looking for is that is possible to run an application (or a batch file) when a certain condition is met and immediately after the application re-arms itself so there is no need to run it again upon check in the bat file fails.
My batch file is the following:


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@echo off
netstat -an |find ":5906"|find /i "establ"
if %errorlevel%==1 goto hibernate
echo %date% %time% MVP is connected on port 5906. Will not suspend or hibernate. > hibernate.log
goto end

:hibernate
echo %date% %time% Hibernate is possible. > hibernate.log
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

:end
exit
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I'm still testing if all work

I hope it will help you solve someway

[dfdario]

After a lot of tests I could tell Shutter is working properly without any further external batchfile. The only limitation is the length of the settable time before hibernate which should be less than 999 secs.

[dfdario]

For those who have more than one MVP and want check MVP before Hibernate I suggest a bat file like this:
@echo off
FOR %%A IN (6 7 8 9) DO (
netstat -an|find ":590%%A"|find /i "establ" > NUL
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto nohibernate
)

:hibernate
echo %date% %time% Hibernate is possible. >> c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\hibernate.log
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
goto end

:nohibernate
echo %date% %time% some MVP is connected. Will not suspend or hibernate. >> c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\hibernate.log
:end
exit

[K.S.]

don't use rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState to standby/hibernate your computer. why? it won't wake up automaticaly for recordings / epgupdate. see here
better to use psshutdown from sysinternals/microsoft