Stand By GBPVR Issues..

[webserverdude]

I am very close to finish automating my GBPVR living room setup. I have GBPVR running from a shell looking spiffy. I have all the EPG, web admin, and automatic comcut and comskip working perfectly. All I have is the standby issue. The computer automatically goes into standby after 5 minutes of inactivity. I would like to be able to wake it up using the remote control but it doesn't look possible so far. It'd be pretty inconvenient reaching into the back of the tube and pressing that flashing button. Can this problem be fixed?

I also have an issue where the TV "monitor" does not get a signal from the computer when it wakes up from standby. Can this problem be fixed too?

ANY information at all about these two issues is much appreciated...

[stefan]

The first thing *can* be fixed, but might be a bit awkward and/or expensive. One is to replace your ir receiver with a usbuirt (or not even replace - just add it if you want). If you connect that to an usb port which has the ability to wake up your computer (check your motherboard manual!), then you can teach the usb-uirt a specific remote signal which it will then react to and try to wake up the computer with.

The other way I know of is that someone here a long time ago rewired his hauppauge ir receiver so that it was soldered in some clever way to a 5V supply and the power button in his case. Not sure if that is possible for all motherboards.

Ah... I found a few of the threads I was thinking of... Unfortunately the circuit drawings are gone, but you might get some ideas. USB remotes seems to be able to do the same thing.

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=10769
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=9585

[K.S.]

The other way I know of is that someone here a long time ago rewired his hauppauge ir receiver so that it was soldered in some clever way to a 5V supply and the power button in his case. Not sure if that is possible for all motherboards.

now that would be a nice hack & definitely contradicts my post in this thread here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...light=wake
i have a hauppauge IR reciever kept in reserve from the time i had a PVR350. if i find it i'll give it a try, i definitely want another HW solution for a client

otherwise: yes, either the MCE remote & reciever or the way i do it with a customised reciever should make a WakeOnIR possible

your other "black screen problem" can be fixed, take a look at this threads here: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...startGBPVR
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post241285

[stefan]

Sorry... i reread the post (the first link in my previous post), and I totally misunderstood the OP. He also says that you can't use the hauppauge ir receiver. I misread that the first time.

[K.S.]

Sorry... i reread the post (the first link in my previous post), and I totally misunderstood the OP. He also says that you can't use the hauppauge ir receiver. I misread that the first time.

dang, would have been to easy

[webserverdude]

What would be the difference between turning off the hard disk and going into standby? What would be the energy difference?

[hzwaal]

What would be the difference between turning off the hard disk and going into standby? What would be the energy difference?

Quite big actually. Your processor (I'm assuming Intel or AMD here) uses much more energy when idle than your harddisk. Your graphics card likely also uses more than the harddisk. It also depends on the kind of power supply you have. The best thing you can do is to use a power meter and measure it.

To give you some figures for my PC:
* totally off: 3W (ATX2.0 always consumes a bit (e.g. for LAN), unless you switch it off)
* standby: 5W
* idle: 64W
* under load: 95W (measured during transcoding)

I haven't actually tried with a turned off harddisk, but my guess would be that it would not differ more than 8W.

[K.S.]

What would be the difference between turning off the hard disk and going into standby? What would be the energy difference?

if you only have one HDD there would be no difference between idle <> HDD off, windows is always playing around swapping a little bit of mem to system disk & back, so it will never really be off