go to standby/hibernate timer after recordings

[pvruser]

I've looked this up and couldn't find anything about the PC going BACK to its previous state (standby/hibernate) after recordings are done.

for example.... i'm at the PC now, working on smth. a program begins to record and i'm going out or to bed so the PC has to continue running for the recording.

i'd like to have smth that would allow me to set "go to sleep after all recordings are done" maybe in the tray utility, lets say 5 minutes after the block of consecutive recordings is done (back to previous state should be the default if gbpvr wakes the machine unless selected from tray menu.) also a big/annoying timer should show up on the monitor to let you know what's going to happen in 5 minutes so that i can cancel it if i don't want it to standby :p

right now i know you can do this same thing by setting the power saving settings but sometimes i just want to have the PC on so i don't want to mess with that... but if there's already smth out there that gbpvr works well with please let me know :o

Thanks!

[sub]

Most people that use hibernate/standby have their machine set to automatically to this after x minutes of inactivity. This means the machine will automatically go back to that state x minues after the recording completes.

[pvruser]

Most people that use hibernate/standby have their machine set to automatically to this after x minutes of inactivity. This means the machine will automatically go back to that state x minues after the recording completes.

yes i am aware of that. but i was wondering if there's any way to execute a script after each recording is done and in that script check if there's another recording running or if another recording is about to start within the next X minutes. maybe even read a flag which tells it if i want the machine to go to sleep or not before doing anything else.

i know i can run a script in place of that comskip and scripting is easy to do but i dont know if anybody has written an utility to check if there's a recording running now or upcoming within the next say 5 minutes. i wouldnt want to standy/hibernate the PC during a chain of multiple recordings... can gbpvr do that by passing some flags?

if nothing is upcoming in the next 5 minutes and no recording is running now i can start a timer script which would eventually standy/hibernate the PC -- i'm sure there's plenty of that around the net.

[sub]

To be honest I'm not keen to have GB-PVR automatically send the machine to sleep, and have avoided adding anything like this (even though it has been requested a couple of times in the past). I dont want to make assumptions about other things that could be running on the machine.

[pvruser]

To be honest I'm not keen to have GB-PVR automatically send the machine to sleep, and have avoided adding anything like this (even though it has been requested a couple of times in the past). I dont want to make assumptions about other things that could be running on the machine.

i dont think you need to send it to sleep. just provide a way to run a command like:

gbpvrschrecord -recordingnow

and that would return if anything is recording now. and

gbpvrschrecord -recording=5

would return if anything is scheduled to record within 5 minutes

so that would be added by whoever wants to write a dos script to the comskip scripts that are executed after each recording.

actually i'm not sure if the recordingnow flag would be necessary since the other one would return if anything is scheduled to run within the next X minutes and the script is executed anyway AFTER a recording is completed and recordingnow should always return false.

so no need to send the machine to sleep what do you think?

[sub]

I'm sure some other users have posted scripts that do this in the past.

[replaytv]

you can use psshutdown from http://www.sysinternals.org and SlimmGBPVR to monitor current recording and take action after recording is done.


I attached my postprocessing.bat and parallelprocessing.bat so you can customize it to your need.

Dan L.

[pvruser]

you can use psshutdown from http://www.sysinterals.org and SlimmGBPVR to monitor current recording and take action after recording is done.


I attached my postprocessing.bat and parallelprocessing.bat so you can customize it to your need.

Dan L.

excellent! thanks i'll try this as soon as possible

[pz1]

you can use psshutdown from http://www.sysinternals.org

Well our good friend Bill has almost swallowed them completely. You can now find the systernal tools here

[pvruser]

thanks all! i've created my own ParallelProcessing.bat PostProcessing.bat and wake.cmd and combined with psshutdown, devcon, GBPVRcli, GBPVRWake and it works great.

really nice application which mostly works well for my needs here are my scripts maybe someone could use/adapt them. they restart the cards when the PC comes up from standby, start a 5 minutes counter if nothing is recording (after last recording is done) so that you can save lots of power and not have to wait for windows power management.

thanks sub!