Scheduled Recordings Waking from Standby not Consistent

[melearp]

I have been battling with this for several days and finally have to admit defeat. I have installed 99.05 and the problem persists. ML2 is the only plug in.

Machine Aopen EPC945, 3.4G processor, 2GB memory, 350GB disk, Hauppauge Nova500t dual DVBT tuner.

Machine is set to go into Standby, but this is unreliable, so I often manually put it into standby. (This I will fix another way and isn't the issue here). It's the wake up that I can't get right.

I have attached logs which show what is really frustrating me. The machine doesn't reliably wake up for GBPVR scheduled recordings. It does reliably wake up for Windows Scheduled tasks. (XP Pro, all updates up to date). I didn't have any real evidence until this log. I scheduled two programs and then put the machine to sleep (standby) manually. The machine didn't wake up for the first recording but did for the second.

Does it matter how the machine is put into standby for GBPVR to be properly notified and create the wake up demands?

To avoid loads of searching the key lines are in GBPVRRecordingService.exe-1.log and are as follows

Code:

31/01/2007 16:24:10.156    VERBOSE    [5]     - checking Newsround
31/01/2007 16:24:10.156    VERBOSE    [5]    pending: Newsround   31/01/2007 17:25
31/01/2007 16:24:10.156    VERBOSE    [5]     - checking Holiday 2007
31/01/2007 16:24:10.156    VERBOSE    [5]    pending: Holiday 2007   31/01/2007 19:00
31/01/2007 18:55:39.515    VERBOSE    [5]    RecordingFactory.save()
31/01/2007 18:55:40.750    VERBOSE    [5]    Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
31/01/2007 18:58:00.015    INFO    [5]    Found new programme requiring recording: Holiday 2007

Thanks in advance for any help.

[K.S.]

Does it matter how the machine is put into standby for GBPVR to be properly notified and create the wake up demands?

yes, it does matter how it's put into standby, had also some issues in that direction which i could not resolve for a longer time period, but the behavior of GBPVR/task scheduler for wakeup was the same.

you don't happen to go into standby using "rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState" ? my box was never able to wake up scheduled after i put it into standby with that. manual standby allways worked. better get psshutdown from sysinternals/microsoft, that has never failed me

[martint123]

When testing I was using manual shutdown > standby and it wasn't waking most of the time. If I waited patiently for a normal standby then it woke up.

Sadly I still have problems with the nova-t-500 failing to recover after standby.

Martin

[melearp]

I am not sure which method is actually used. I am using HIP to direct my remote keystrokes to different applications and one of the keys is using the inbuilt HIP function to standby. I wrote some test code to look at standby and resume behaviours and that's where I noticed that there are two basic methods, normal and forced. I wondered if forced didn't inform the applications - but then again that is not consistent with GBPVR getting woken for the SECOND recording and not the first.

As far as the novat500 recovery - yes I have had that once (shows up in the logs) but I was hoping that not allowing power management to power off the board/associated usb would be OK.

Sub - just a thought. Is the calling of the wake.bat synchronous? Would putting a delay of n seconds in there also delay the start of recording? And would that in turn give the novat500 chance to recover? I have read lots about this on a Media Centre forum (the Australian one) and that seems to be the general tack there.