Network down when waking from standby

[Obsidian]

Hi there

Loving the new version 1.0.8 is great, just looking forward to getting all the previous functionality into pvrx2!

Anyway, the reason I'm posting is that I have a problem (another one) with standby. I have my machine automatically going into standby using windows power management, and waking for recordings/epg updates etc. The problem is that when it wakes, the network doesn't come back. It gets stuck on "aquiring IP address". This is odd, because I have assigned it a static IP. If I disable the network adapter, and re-enable it the network comes back. Does anyone have any idea what this could be?

Also, when it comes back on, the GBPVR window doesn't have focus. This is a WAF dealbreaker for me. Any advice on this front?

[gEd]

network: what adapter do you have. I hope it's not a crappy netgear Wg121 usb. what happens if you use dynamic ip?

gbpvr focus (yep this is a real dealbreaker)

add this line to the [default] section of c:\windows\irremote.ini

GRNPOWER={run(c:\Progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\GBPVR.exe)}

or

GRNPOWER={run(c:\Progra~1\devnz\gbpvr\PVRX2.exe)}

and restart ir.exe

when you press green power button (top right), it will either launch gbpvr or give it focus if it is already running.

[edit] that's assuming your ir.exe is working correctly when you come out of standy. If pressing the green button puts the pc into standy then ir.exe hasn't woken up properly 9it can't see the nova-t).

[hawk_2050]

Yes, I found the exact same happening with my on-board network adapter. The only way I could find around the problem was to create a small batch file that executes when the machine comes out of standby that automatically disables and then re-enables the network adapter. The script calls a Microsoft tool that basically allows command line control over most of the things you have access to through the Windows Device Manager. If you need more detail I can let you know after I've checked what I did, after work today.

Cheers
Richard

[pBS]

try setting network card to Not 'allow the computer turn off this device' in power management for the device..[uncheck it] maybe it'lll keep enough juice to not die completely upon awakening..

[Obsidian]

Thanks for the responses guys, it's much appreciated.

@gEd: I have my green button set up as you suggest, and when I press it the machine goes into standby. I'd been wondering what that was all about. I guess I need to restart the ir when coming out of standby?

@hawk_2050: That would be very helpful if you don't mind.

Both of these will require that I can run a batch file on wake from standby I guess. I looked at gbpvrwake the other day, but won't there need to be a new version of this for pvrx2?

@pBS: I want to get wake-on-lan working at some point, don't I need that checked to enable wol?

Cheers again everyone

Edit: Oh, and my network adapter is a cheap Realtek 100mb card

[frankmcg]

Both of these will require that I can run a batch file on wake from standby I guess. I looked at gbpvrwake the other day, but won't there need to be a new version of this for pvrx2?

GBPVRwake works on the new version just fine. All it does is call the batch file wake.cmd [wakeup.cmd?]. So you can put the restart ir.exe line in there.

[SuMo]

@pBS: I want to get wake-on-lan working at some point, don't I need that checked to enable wol?

I think it's the opposite, when checked the adapter can be turned off by the computer, but what you want is the adapter keeps it's power to wake the machine.
When it keeps it's power it will probably keep it's IP adress also.

Correct me if I'm wrong

[Obsidian]

That's an interesting point, and I'm a bit confused by this. The box says "Allow the computer to turn of this device to save power". I would have thought that you have to maintain power to the device if you want to WOL (as you suggest). However, if you uncheck the box then the WOL options below it grey out, indicating that you have to allow the computer to power down the device if you want WOL. At the moment I have it checked, but haven't got WOL to work, so maybe that's my problem.

Anyone have an explanation?

@Frankmcg: I had a look at GBPVR wake, and the description says that it closes GBPVR before running the script. Surely this won't work with the new exe?

[SuMo]

you're right, pretty confusing. When enabling "allow computer to turn off this device" an option " Allow this device to bring computer out of standby" will be available, did you enable this one also ? (required to have WOL funtionality)
When enabled, it might wake your machine once in a while to refresh network settings.

As suggested by gEd; did you try using an dynamic IP adress ?

[khaver]

I remember reading somewhere that there's a problem with networking/standby in XP. The problem happens when you set standby/hibernation to more than 45 minutes. I too had this problem but it went away when I set my standby to 30 minutes and hibernation to 45 minutes. Also, I never manualy set it to standby/hibernate. I just turn off the monitor and walk away. Try this and see if it works.

khaver