Will GBPVR wake machine to record?

[acegolfer]

I have a silly question.

I want to schedule my PC to hibernate at 1 am and wake up at 5 pm everyday. Will the following work?

1. In GBPVR config, check wake EPG, pick 5 pm.
2. Schedule "psshutdown -h" to execute at 1 am

Or is there a better way?

[acegolfer]

To answer my silly question,

I can even schedule wake up from poweroff and shut down.

1. In Bios, set RTC power on (even K7S5A MB does this)
2. In XP, schedule shutdown using either shutdown.exe or psshutdown.exe

This is ideal for my server and I can save some electricity bill.

[bungle]

This is ideal for my server and I can save some electricity bill.

Saving electricity is a noble goal. I have found S3 sleep (suspend-to-RAM) mode the best. Hibernating is pretty slow in my box with 2G of RAM. But with S3 it sleeps in about 1 second and wakes in about 4. Very convenient so I have a pretty aggressive sleep policy. My box doesn't use much more energy in S3 than powered off. GB-PVR can wake from S3 to record or do an EPG update. Well worth investigating to see if your setup supports it.

[sbiddle]

I've just been reading this thread and have a few questions I'm wondering if somebody can answer.

GBPVR will wake for a recording and go to sleep after if there is no user intervention. In my experience if a user touches the system after it has woken up from sleep the system won't go back to sleep automatically. What is the best way of putting my system into standby mode if the PVR is sitting unused? I'd like to be able to automatically put it into sleep mode after say 30 mins of inactivity but obviously any utility to do this needs to check nothing is recording at the time. Maybe this could be something for sub to include in a future version to make this easier to do?

Are people using any batch files or applications to do this? If you are what do you find works the best?


Thanks guys..

[frazer]

Well the system out to go back into standby/hibernation after the idle time you chose in the Windows power settings since you're last intervention or since GBPVR has stopped recording. I do find though that sometimes a message has come up in Windows (which I can't see as I'm using an XCard to output to TV) which can stop the machine hibernating.

Because of this, I looked into other ways of hibernating using nircmd or psshutdown, which can be written into a batch file called by GBPVR after a recording has finished (postprocessing.bat). To stop it hibernating if there is another recording starting you can use parallelprocessing.bat- called by GBPVR when a recording starts- to cancel the hibernation.

What I can't work out though, and there are threads elsewhere by people who know more about it than me, is how you stop it hibernating through postprocessing.bat if you're watching something else in GBPVR (or using your computer for anything else) when the recording finishes. I guess if you can see the Windows screeen you can set the hibernation process to give a countdown message with the choice to stop the hibernation manually- OK presuming you haven't left the room momentarily. But this is no good for me anyway, so I've settled on the automatic Windows shutdown after idle time, and if it ever doesn't go into hibernation, I just have to reboot and everything works again as normal. Not ideal if i want to set something to record when I'm away though!

Frazer

[carpeVideo]

Look at the hibernator in this thread - seem to be an even more power friendly option

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=25631

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/communit...chine.html